Adam Byrd in Bexar County, Texas courtroom for his sentencing hearing on March 24, 2025 (KSAT).

A man from Texas, aged 25, has been sentenced to decades in prison for murdering his 22-year-old girlfriend, whom he fatally shot after she informed him she would not have his child. Bexar County District Judge Christine Del Prado sentenced Adam Byrd to 40 years in a state prison for the 2023 murder of Jade Alvarez, as per court documents examined by Law&Crime.

Byrd entered a no-contest plea for charges which included one count of murder, two counts of aggravated robbery, and a count of possessing a controlled substance. He received 15-year sentences for each robbery charge, but these will run concurrently, meaning they will be served at the same time.

The sentencing decision was met with dissatisfaction by the victim’s family members, several of whom attended the court hearing on Monday, as reported by San Antonio ABC station KSAT.

“Forty years may be the punishment that was handed down, but to us, it’s a slap in the face. It could never truly reflect the magnitude of our loss,” Alvarez’s grandmother, Rita Camacho, told the station. “Her son was left without a mother and wants to take flowers to Mama every week.”

As Law&Crime previously reported, officers with the San Antonio Police Department responded at about 6:30 a.m. on April 6 to a reported shooting at an area located in the 1000 block of Capitol Avenue. An officer who was patrolling the streets in the area reportedly discovered an adult female — later identified as Alvarez — lying unresponsive in the street. She had apparently sustained several gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene.