{"id":219382,"date":"2026-03-25T07:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T07:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/219382\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T07:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T07:36:08","slug":"27-year-old-texas-man-gets-40-years-in-prison-for-slashing-81-year-old-boyfriends-neck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/219382\/","title":{"rendered":"27-year-old Texas man gets 40 years in prison for slashing 81-year-old boyfriend’s neck"},"content":{"rendered":"

A tatted Texas man was sentenced to 40 years behind bars last week for slashing the throat of his elderly lover, who was three times his age, in a heinous murder last year, according to reports.<\/p>\n

Alberto Rafael Ferrer Cabrera, 27, was handed down the four-decade sentence by Bexar County Judge Kristina Escalona on Friday for fatally slashing Donald Atha Weynandt, his 81-year-old common-law husband, in San Antonio on Feb 1, 2025,\u00a0according to KENS5.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"MugshotAlberto Rafael Ferrer Cabrera, 27, was sentenced to 40 years behind bars for slashing his elderly lover in the throat. Bexar County Jail<\/p>\n

Cabrera, who was 26 at the time, confessed to a 911 dispatcher around 5 a.m. that morning that he had stabbed and killed Weynadt, KSAT reported. <\/a><\/p>\n

Cops responded to the home and pronounced the octogenarian dead at the scene, according to the outlet. <\/a><\/p>\n

A motive for the fatal slashing was never determined, but Cabrera was reportedly \u201cstressed\u201d at the time about bringing his 4-year-old son to the US from Colombia, the Bexar County District Attorney\u2019s Office said.<\/p>\n

By the time Cabrera completes his 40-year sentence, he will still be significantly younger than his lover was when he was slaughtered. <\/p>\n

Cabrera had a detainer placed on him by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement shortly after his arrest and was charged with illegal entry from a foreign nation, alongside murder charges. But the charge no longer appears on his online court records, KSAT reported. <\/p>\n

Weynandt\u2019s daughter, Katrina Mercado, previously told the outlet <\/a>that she had never spoken to Cabrera and \u201cpersonally did not trust the situation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"DonaldCabrera slashed 81-year-old Donald Atha Weynandt in the throat on Feb 1, 2025. Facebook<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s hard to believe,\u201d Mercado said. \u201cI think the questions will forever be developing over time, processing what happened.\u201d<\/p>\n

The shocked daughter said she ultimately wished for Weynandt to be remembered as a \u201cloving father.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMr. Weynandt deserved to live out his life in safety and dignity,\u201d District Attorney Joe Gonzales said in a statement obtained by the outlet. \u201cOur office remains committed to holding those who commit acts of violence fully accountable.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A tatted Texas man was sentenced to 40 years behind bars last week for slashing the throat of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[14551,7456,85548,27,29,28,734],"class_list":["post-219382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-murders","tag-sentencing","tag-stabbings","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219382","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=219382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}