Man sentenced to 70 years in prison for 2024 northeast Austin murder

AUSTIN, Texas — A man has been sentenced to 70 years in prison for a 2024 murder in northeast Austin.

The Travis County District Attorney’s Office said on June 25, a jury convicted 38-year-old Carlos Maldonado-Martinez of murder in connection with the death of 35-year-old Wilfredo Beneitez-Jimenez on May 22, 2024.

Police say Maldonado-Martinez and co-defendant Victor Maldonado-Villalobos shot Beneitez-Jimenez seven times while he was sitting in the living room of his apartment at a complex on Middle Fiskville Road, near East Rundberg Lane and Interstate 35…

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