CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Trevor Lang has begun a murder sentence of 25 years with the possibility of parole. He is accused of shooting and killing 38-year-old Ruben Trevino on Dodd Street in May 2022.
In court this year, Lang pleaded guilty, taking full responsibility for the murder.
This prompted prosecutors to ask for more details on what happened that night. They offered Lang a plea deal but an allocution, or full confession, was required for this.
He had to get on the stand and tell everything the way it occurred the day of the shooting.
Lang's attorney who shared with 3NEWS what led him to accept the deal.
"I think he accepted the idea that a fair jury could have found him guilty of capital murder which is life without parole," Lang's attorney said. "They had weighed the death penalty and he didn't want to risk the chance of a jury doing more severe punishment, so he accepted a deal."
Evidence and the allocution showed Trevino and Lang were friends, but were having a dispute over drugs the night of the shooting.
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