Gainesville man sentenced to 5 years in bar stabbing

By: News 12 Staff

Posted: Tue 6:20 PM, Dec 03, 2013

By: News 12 Staff

GAINESVILLE, TX -- A Gainesville man has been sentenced to 5 years in prison after a stabbing at a bar last year.

18 year-old Kenneth Martinez pleaded guilty to aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and has been sentenced.

Police say Martinez and three others stabbed Gary Mayfield multiple times last December at the Rodeo Bar in Gainesville.

Mayfield survived the stabbing.

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