By Steve Neavling
A former supervisory Border Patrol agent convicted of fatally stabbing his girlfriend and their 1-year-old son in 2018 was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday.
On July 6, a jury found Ronald Anthony Burgos-Aviles guilty of murdering Grizelda Hernandez, 27, and Dominic Alexander at Father McNaboe Park in Laredo, Texas, on April 9, 2018.
Shortly after midnight, the jury returned a punishment of two life sentences without the possibility of parole, Laredo Morning Times reports.
In his closing arguments, Webb County District Attorney Isidro “Chilo” Alaniz urged a jury against sentencing Burgos-Aviles to life in prison without parole because he wanted to press for the death penalty.
Burgos-Aviles’ attorney William Boggs asked the jury to spare his client’s life, reminding them that he would die in prison.
The jury began deliberating around 3 p.m.
