A 34-year-old Texas man who gunned down his girlfriend’s father during an argument over paying a cover charge to get into a nightclub has been sentenced to 25 years in prison.
Franco Xavier Summers on Tuesday pleaded no contest to one count of murder in the 2024 slaying of 43-year-old Christopher Paul Fuentes, court records show. Bexar County District Judge Jefferson Moore subsequently ordered Summers to serve 25 years in a state correctional facility. In exchange for his plea, prosecutors dismissed additional charges of assault involving family violence by strangulation and evading arrest.
The sentence stems from the fatal shooting of Fuentes outside a Taco Palenque restaurant in San Antonio on Nov. 9, 2024…