WACO, Texas (KWTX) - BREAKING: Jurors in Waco’s 19th State District Court deliberated an hour before rejecting Abel Hidrago’s self defense claims and convicting him of murder and tampering with evidence in the 2023 shooting of Daniel Boshell.
The punishment phase will begin Wednesday afternoon.
Hidrago faces up to life in prison.
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A woman who had relationships with Abel Carlos Hidrago and Daniel Boshell testified Tuesday Hidrago did not act in self-defense and was not in fear for his life when he shot Boshell between the eyes with a 9 mm pistol.
Jasmine Hartman, who lived two blocks from where Boshell was sharing a trailer home in Lacy Lakeview with a roommate,