Man pleads guilty to murder of Carrollton school employee after 9 years on the run
A man who nine years ago killed a school employee in Carrollton and fled to Mexico has pleaded guilty to murder after being extradited back to Texas in 2021, according to a Thursday news release form Carrollton police.
His plea was part of a deal that includes a 30-year prison sentence.
Authorities said Gerardo Alvarez murdered his boss, Todd Fenton, in 2013, shooting him several times in the back at the Carrolton-Farmers Branch school district’s bus yard.
Fenton’s wife died in March and was not able to see her husband’s murderer sentenced to prison, police said in the news release.
James Hartley
Fort Worth Star-Telegram