{"id":174238,"date":"2026-02-21T12:19:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T12:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/174238\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T12:19:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T12:19:13","slug":"euless-woman-sentenced-to-life-for-2024-motel-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/174238\/","title":{"rendered":"Euless woman sentenced to life for 2024 motel murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                <img class=\"responsive-image\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\"  alt=\"Get breaking news alerts at star-telegram.com\/newsletters.\" title=\"Get breaking news alerts at star-telegram.com\/newsletters.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>        Get breaking news alerts at star-telegram.com\/newsletters.<\/p>\n<p>            Star-Telegram illustration\/Ricky Moon photo<\/p>\n<p>A Tarrant County jury convicted a woman and sentenced her to life in prison this week in the 2024 murder of her boyfriend, Tarrant County district attorney Phil Sorrells said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Bridget Leitao, 45, shot and killed Jorge Lara Pulido, 40, after an argument on May 27, 2024, the Star-Telegram initially reported. The two were driving to a grocery store when they began to argue about Pulido\u2019s absence earlier in the day.<\/p>\n<p>Pulido turned the vehicle around and returned to a motel in the 100 block of Airport Freeway in Euless where the couple were staying.<\/p>\n<p>When they arrived, Leitao shot Pulido once in the chest, and he died at the scene, Euless police said.<\/p>\n<p>        Related Stories from  Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/profile\/288629615\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1771676353_135_LillieDavidson-Profile Cropped.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of Lillie Davidson\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/profile\/288629615\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lillie Davidson<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n<p>            Lillie Davidson is a breaking news reporter for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. She graduated from TCU in 2025 with a bachelor\u2019s degree in journalism, is fluent in Spanish, and can complete a crossword in five minutes.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Get breaking news alerts at star-telegram.com\/newsletters. Star-Telegram illustration\/Ricky Moon photo A Tarrant County jury convicted a woman and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151,70416,70415,70418,70417],"class_list":["post-174238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news","tag-brigid-leitao-conviction","tag-euless-motel-murder","tag-jorge-lara-pulido-death","tag-tarrant-county-life-sentence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}