{"id":232553,"date":"2026-04-02T23:13:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T23:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/232553\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T23:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T23:13:08","slug":"rene-gonzales-sentenced-to-two-50-year-terms-after-drive-by-and-shooting-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/232553\/","title":{"rendered":"Rene Gonzales sentenced to two 50-year terms after drive-by and shooting deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN ANTONIO &#8211; A man convicted in two separate killings will spend decades in prison after receiving two 50-year sentences, according to the Bexar County District Attorney\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Rene Gonzales was sentenced Thursday to two concurrent 50-year prison terms for the deaths of Novita Brazil and Gabriel Gonzales.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors say the first killing happened in October 2022 during a drive-by shooting. Authorities said Gonzales was aiming for a different home but instead fired at Brazil\u2019s residence, killing her.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/news4sanantonio.com\/news\/local\/live-over-100-shell-casings-found-after-drive-by-shooting-kills-woman-in-west-bexar-co-investigation-san-antonio-texas-deputies-sheriff-ambulance-hospital-doctors-fatal-arrest-suspects\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Two teenage boys fire over 100 rounds at wrong house, killing an innocent woman<\/a><\/p>\n<p>While out on bond for that case, Gonzales later violated the conditions of his release by removing his GPS ankle monitor, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Not long after, prosecutors say Gonzales was involved in a second deadly shooting. Gabriel Gonzales was killed while trying to protect his daughter from an alleged assault involving Gonzales\u2019 sister outside their home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO &#8211; A man convicted in two separate killings will spend decades in prison after receiving two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-232553","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-san-antonio","9":"tag-san-antonio-headlines","10":"tag-san-antonio-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232553","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=232553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}