Gainesville man sentenced in murder case

GAINESVILLE, Texas (KXII) -- Cooke County District Attorney, John Warren said Brandon Rodriguez pleaded guilty to murder and was sentenced to 40 years in prison on Monday.

He will not be eligible for parole.

But the victim's family tells us they still lack closure.

"The pain that I feel and that I have every day is never going to go away.

A year and a half later, Rosario Puente still remembers the day police told her, her son had been murdered.

"I wanted to see him walk through the door. But when I saw that they brought his car to the house. That's when it just came to me that it was true, he wasn't here anymore."

Cooke County District Attorney, John Warren, says Rodriguez shot 20-year-old Luis Puente, 3 times in an alley near the 600 Block of Dixon Street.

"It was a dispute over a girlfriend. Mr. Rodriguez didn't like that Mr. Puente was dating his old girlfriend and murdered him." Warren

Luis Puente and his wife, Cierra, were separated at the time... she says that's when Puente began dating Rodriguez's ex girlfriend.

"Why do you feel the need to take someone's life over an argument. It just doesn't make sense at all. It just doesn't make sense to this day. We still have plenty of answers that will never be answered for us."

By the time Rodriguez is out of prison, he will be 59-years-old.