An Oklahoma man who shot his girlfriend outside a Texas Roadhouse restaurant in Texas before fleeing the scene with his two children has learned his fate.

Mario Alberto Rodriquez, 33, pleaded guilty before he could go to trial for the 2022 murder of 23-year-old Marisela Mendoza. As Law&Crime previously reported, Rodriquez and Mendoza, both Oklahoma residents, traveled separately to the Texas Roadhouse in Amarillo on April 30, 2022, and parked in the parking lot. The couple got into a heated argument that escalated into violence when Rodriquez pulled a gun on Mendoza and fired several shots.

Rodriquez then fled to another town with his two little girls, ages 5 and 8 years old, in the car with him.

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