A man was sentenced to 45 years in prison for the murder of another man during a violent confrontation in 2024, according to a news release from the Bexar County District Attorney’s Office.

Robert Carrasco Jr., 40, who is accused of killing Jason Banda, 38, was sentenced Monday in Bexar County’s 175th District Court.

San Antonio police said Carrasco assaulted Banda on April 27, 2024, when Banda visited his sister, who the district attorney’s office says was also Carrasco’s girlfriend, at a South Side home.

According to the district attorney’s office, Banda previously had Carrasco arrested on an outstanding warrant for a motion to revoke probation related to an assault on Carrasco’s girlfriend.

During the confrontation, the release states Carrasco brutally beat and killed Banda in front

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