Staff report

The man responsible for the death of Kyle resident Yuridia Amaya Espinoza-Nava in 2019 plead guilty to her murder this week and was sentenced to 33 years in prison —exactly the number of years Espinoza-Nava had been alive when he killed her with a knife and buried her body in the woods outside Elgin. 

Tomas Sanchez Solorzano, a Bastrop resident, had faced up to 99 years behind bars. The sentence was the result of a plea deal arranged accepted by Bastrop County District Judge Ch...