Man murdered his girlfriend as she slept then went on beer run before going to live with his other family in another city

A Texas antheral is headed to situation aft helium changeable his woman to decease arsenic she slept earlier helium went to bargain brew and drove to different metropolis wherever helium lived with his different family.

Juan Manuel Yanez, 49, was sentenced to beingness down bars for the shooting death of 43-year-old Victoria Valadez successful her San Marcos apartment, the Hays County District Attorney's Office said. Yanez pleaded blameworthy earlier this period to murder. He is eligible for parole aft 30 years.

Yanez called 911 connected Feb. 7, 2025, to accidental helium had conscionable changeable his "wife." The fishy did not springiness a determination but dispatchers traced the telephone to an flat connected River Road successful San Marcos, which is astir 30 minutes southbound of Austin. Cops rushed to the flat wherever they recovered Valadez suffering from a gunshot coiled to the head. There were nary signs of a conflict and grounds showed that Yanez apt changeable her dormant arsenic she slept.

Prosecutors said Yanez fled the country aft calling cops. Authorities located surveillance footage from a adjacent 7-Eleven that showed Yanez arriving successful the victim's motortruck and buying 4 beers astir 20 minutes earlier the 911 call. He past drove backmost to Valadez's flat to telephone 911, indicating helium changeable her earlier helium went connected the brew run. The beers were inactive acold erstwhile cops arrived connected scene. Yanez near his wallet connected Valadez's bedstand. He besides had her humor connected his covering and jewelry.

Detectives aboriginal learned the 2 were not joined but had been romantically progressive for respective months. After calling 911, Yanez drove much than 150 miles to Houston wherever helium lived with his different family. At immoderate constituent on the way, helium ditched the execution weapon, which was ne'er recovered, and removed the SIM paper from his telephone which prevented cops from tracking his movements.

Yanez was identified arsenic the fishy and cops arrested him adjacent his Houston location aft a little manhunt. Prosecutors said they were ne'er capable to find a motive for the murder.

Assistant Criminal District Attorneys Jon English and Abigail Whitaker prosecuted the case.

"This condemnation recognizes the information of what happened successful that apartment: a beingness was taken, a household was destroyed, and a assemblage was disrupted. Justice required a condemnation adjacent to the gravity of that crime," English said successful a statement. "Judge Pool's condemnation delivered that justness for the assemblage and the victim's loved ones, and the exceptional enactment of the San Marcos Police Department made this result possible."

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Added Whitaker: "The household showed bonzer courageousness passim this lawsuit and done the sentencing hearing. Their spot ensured the tribunal saw not lone the facts of the murder, but besides the existent outgo to the victim's household and the assemblage arsenic a whole."