Man sentenced to 25 years in March 2022 southeast Austin shooting

A man was sentenced to 25 years in prison in connection with a deadly shooting that happened in March 2022 in southeast Austin.

TRAVIS COUNTY, Texas (KXAN) -- A man was sentenced to 25 years in prison in connection with a deadly shooting that happened in March 2022 in southeast Austin.

Court documents said Zachariah Lopez pleaded guilty and was indicted on a murder charge in a shooting that left Jesse Robert Hernandez dead. The shooting happened on East Riverside Drive, near South Pleasant Valley Road.

The sentence for Lopez began on May 31, according to court documents. He has a jail credit of 816 days.