{"id":300725,"date":"2026-05-20T02:48:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T02:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/300725\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T02:48:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T02:48:32","slug":"socorro-murder-case-man-gets-35-years-for-2022-killing-of-43-year-old-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/300725\/","title":{"rendered":"Socorro murder case: Man gets 35 years for 2022 killing of 43-year-old woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SOCORRO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 A man who was 18 when a Socorro woman was shot and killed inside her home in 2022 has been sentenced to 35 years in prison. <\/p>\n<p>The 34th Judicial District Attorney\u2019s Office said Carlos Sifuentes, 23, pleaded guilty to murder on Tuesday in the shooting death of 43-year-old Jade Ruiz. <\/p>\n<p>Ruiz was killed Feb. 12, 2022, when she was shot once inside her Socorro home, according to the district attorney\u2019s office. <\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/news\/crime-news\/hand-print-connects-teen-to-socorro-murder?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Handprint connects teen to Socorro murder<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Investigators said Sifuentes conspired to rob the victim\u2019s son but was interrupted when Ruiz came to the back door of the home. Sifuentes then shot Ruiz, fatally wounding her.<\/p>\n<p>Jade Ruiz\u2019s family has waited years for justice. We are grateful to the prosecutors and investigators who stayed with this case until it was resolved,\u201d District Attorney James Montoya said. \u201cThis conviction reflects our Office\u2019s continued commitment to holding violent offenders accountable, no matter how long it takes.<\/p>\n<p>The El Paso County Sheriff\u2019s Office Major Crimes Unit investigated the case. <\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/news\/local\/a-shooting-out-of-socorro-leaves-a-woman-in-her-40s-dead?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Teen accused in Socorro shooting that killed 43-year-old woman<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/sign-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up<\/a> to receive the top interesting stories from in and around our community once daily in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SOCORRO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 A man who was 18 when a Socorro woman was shot and killed inside&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-300725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300725","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=300725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}