BRAZOS COUNTY, Texas (KRHD) — A Brazos County jury has sentenced 33-year-old Zachary Pfluger of San Angelo to 20 years in prison after finding that an aggravated assault he committed was motivated by bias and prejudice. The decision, reached on Oct. 29, followed Pfluger’s guilty plea last week to Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon. The bias finding elevated the charge to a first-degree felony.

The Halloween night 2021 incident brought out the College Station Police Department, after receiving a chilling 911 call from a man who said he had been shot twice by Pfluger and believed he was dying. During the call, dispatchers heard a third gunshot and the victim’s cries of pain.

Responding officers forced entry into Pfluger’s apartment, finding the victim—who knew Pfluger through church—b

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