Kyle man receives 25-year sentence for 2014 murder

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Staff Report on December 13, 2017

A Kyle man was sentenced to 25 years in prison Dec. 6 after a Hays County jury convicted him of a 2014 retaliation-style murder.

Michael Anthony Trejo, 22, was convicted of first degree murder in the shooting death of Carlos Fernandez, according to a Hays County press release.

During testimony at the trial, which began Nov. 27, witnesses said Trejo and Fernandez were searching for a gun on April 14, 2014, that had been used in an earlier shooting episode.

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