Just 10 ½ hours from the time Brandon Fontenette met Mark Stevens and his wife, Hays County law enforcement officials declared Fontenette dead following what was described as a menage a trois at the couple's home in Buda in 2018.
It took jurors little time Tuesday before returning two guilty verdicts against Stevens following closing arguments. One for first-degree murder and the other for tampering with evidence. Testimony showed Stevens strangled Fontenette, shot him 13 times with an airsoft BB style pistol and stabbed in the back and into his lung, killing him.
Jurors returned a sentence of life in prison for the murder charge and 10 years in prison for the tampering charge on Wednesday.
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