The McAllen man described as looking like a “reptile” was sentenced to prison for murder on Friday.

Jayson Martinez Gonzalez, 37, was sentenced to nine years in prison after entering a guilty plea to murder for the death of 36-year-old Jesus Javier Sanchez, according to the Hidalgo County District Attorney’s Office.

That plea came following a jury trial that was about to go into deliberations.

His co-defendant, 48-year-old Reinaldo Rafael Sanchez Jr. from Edinburg, remains in custody and is currently scheduled for a pre-trial hearing in early September in order to obtain a trial setting, according to jail records and court documents.

Both were indicted in March 2023.

On Dec. 20, 2022, McAllen police responded to a residence in the 1900 block of Oakland Avenue in regards to an aggravat

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