A Bexar County man received a 38-year prison sentence for the murder of his coworker in 2019, court records stated.

Colin Christian King, 40, learned his fate in court on Monday.

King was accused of killing his coworker, Shane Jean-Louis Bourret, after Bourret was reported missing in May 2019.

In addition to King, Donald Wayne Barber was arrested in connection with Bourret’s killing.

Records show Barber, 66, has been charged with tampering with a human corpse, which is considered a second-degree felony.

King had been extradited to the Bexar County Adult Detention Center after he was arrested in Mississippi on murder and concealing or altering a corpse charges.

Bourret was found buried in the backyard of a home in the 100 block of North San Felipe Avenue, according to the Bexar County

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