2Laredo, TX – A Texas man received a life sentence for murdering his girlfriend and her daughter. Rene Mendez was convicted on two counts of first-degree murder for the deaths of 40-year-old Sylvia Ramos and 19-year-old Brianna Ramos.

A jury delivered the verdict on Friday and a judge subsequently sentenced him without the possibility of parole. The events leading to the murders began on March 6, when the brother of Sylvia Ramos alerted a Laredo police officer, shouting that his sister had been killed.

Police arrived at an apartment on Lomas Del Sur Blvd and found both victims deceased. Mendez was discovered later that day at a nearby Motel 6 after a reported drug overdose.

An investigation revealed that Mendez stabbed Sylvia Ramos 55 times, primarily in the neck, after first killing he

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