(KAIR)--Guilty. 

That's the plea entered by the Atchison man accused of taking a young girl from her home and killing her while engaged in a standoff with police. 

According to a joint statement from Acting U.S. Attorney Tom Beall and Leavenworth County Attorney Todd Thompson, 32-year-old Marcas McGowan entered the plea Thursday, admitting his guilt to the federal charges of one count of kidnapping resulting in death and one count of discharging a firearm during a crime of violence. 

The prosecution says McGowan, in his plea, admitted that on July 18th, 2014, he shot and killed the 5-year-old girl after he kidnapped her and exchanged gunfire with police. 

That fatal shot was fired on Leavenworth's Metropolitan Avenue, after McGowan's vehicle became ensnared in a work zone. That followed a high-speed pursuit that began in Atchison, crossed into Missouri, and ended in Leavenworth. Authorities say it stemmed from a domestic dispute between McGowan and his girlfriend at her Atchison residence. Threatening her with a gun, prosecutors say McGowan drove off with her daughter as police arrived. 

Sentencing for McGowan is set for September 6th, with an agreement having been reached to recommend a life sentence for the kidnapping charge, which is the statutory minimum penalty. 

The firearm-related count requires a statutory minimum penalty of 10-years consecutive to the other sentence.