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CRIME & SAFETY
McKinney man who claimed wife’s murder was an accident gets life sentence
McKINNEY, Texas - A McKinney man will spend the rest of his life behind bars for murdering his wife. Collin County District Attorney Greg Willis’s office said 24-year-old Joel Torres shot and killed his common-law wife, Shailene Valez, inside their home in 2021. Torres told police he was trying...
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