BEAUMONT, Texas (AP) — A Southeast Texas man has been sentenced to 50 years in prison for gunfire that killed his girlfriend and one of her male relatives.

Jose Chinchilla of Beaumont pleaded guilty Wednesday to murder in a plea deal over the 2012 deaths of 24-year-old Francisca Garza and 44-year-old Gregorio Sanchez.

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