SAN MARCOS - Mark Anthony Briones, 34, of Kyle was convicted of capital murder for the June 2022 murder of infant Annalyne Fridley Benavides. Judge Bruce Boyer then sentenced the defendant to life without parole. According to a Hays County news release, on June 20, 2022, Briones was babysitting Frid...

SAN MARCOS — Following the April 19 conviction by a jury, Jeffery Alan Scott Jr. was sentenced to life in prison for attempted capital murder and aggravated assault of a public servant on April 24. According to the District Attorney’s Office, Scott was on the run from a murder warrant out of Dallas ...

Staff Report  KYLE – Noe Raymundo Ibarra, 30, was arrested and charged with capital murder for the death of two men in Kyle. On July 12, at approximately 10:43 pm, the Hays County Sheriff’s Office dispatch received a call from a male subject who advised that he had shot two people. The call originat...

Staff Report The Kyle Police Department has arrested Mark Anthony Briones, 32, of Kyle in connection to the death of a 7-month-old infant.   On Monday, June 20, the Kyle Police Department was called to Dell Children's Medical Center in Austin for a report of an infant being treated for life-threaten...

Staff Report KYLE -- Dazrine Chagoya-Williams, 24, convicted of capital murder and sentenced to life without parole for the death of her infant son. Chagoya-Williams’ trial began on April 25, 2022. She was convicted of capital murder of a child under 10 years of age after the jury’s guilty verdict F...

Staff Report Mark James Stevens, 41, of Buda, was convicted for the murder of Brandon Fontenette and sentenced to life in prison. During the jury trial before 428 th  District Judge Bill Henry, which began on July 6, the prosecution presented evidence that on the evening of July 25, 2018, Mark and J...

A jury trial for the man suspected of killing Kyle Police Department Victim Services Coordinator Samantha Dean and her unborn child in 2015 has now been reset for 2019.  Samantha Dean as Kyle Police Department's Victim Services Coordinator in 2014. (file photo) Former Austin Police Officer Vontrey C...

A Hays County grand jury earlier this month issued a capital murder indictment against a Kyle woman accused of killing her five-year-old daughter in January. The indictment was one of two issued by the grand jury against Krystle Conception Villanueva, 25, of Kyle. According to a Hays County press re...

This story has been updated. See more current story here. 25-year-old Kyle resident Krystle Concepcion Villanueva was indicted March 15 by a Hays County Grand Jury for one count of Capital Murder of a Child and one count of Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon - Family Violence in the death of he...