A 25-year-old man in Texas has admitted to gunning down a mother of four while she was driving — causing her car to flip over into a ditch — during a road rage confrontation in San Antonio, with a judge sentencing him to more than three decades behind bars.
Nicholas Hernandez, 25, was sentenced to 35 years in prison on Friday after entering a guilty plea last week in state district court for the death of 31-year-old Julie Marie Butcher, according to online court records. His sentence was the maximum punishment allowed under his plea deal, the San Antonio Express-News reports.
“Julie’s life was tragically taken, and we hope her loved ones can take some measure of solace in the sentence imposed today,” said Bexar County District Attorney Joe Gonzales in a statement to local ABC affiliate KSAT…