What started as a quick trip to buy drugs at an Euless apartment complex ended with one man dead and another headed to prison for most of his adult life.
The Tarrant County District Attorney’s office announced that 21-year-old Reynaldo Marcos Silva pleaded guilty to murder and was sentenced to 40 years in prison for a December 2024 shooting that killed 22-year-old Alexander Antonio Borras at an Euless apartment complex. Prosecutors say Silva went to the complex to buy drugs and, according to investigators, shot Borras during what detectives describe as a planned robbery. Borras was taken to a hospital in Grapevine, where he died.
In a post by the Tarrant County DA, the office thanked the Euless Police Department and singled out “Det. Coffee” for investigative work that helped secure Silva’s plea and sentence. The same post notes that detectives recovered messages in which Silva discussed robbing the victim and told friends he needed to go to Mexico.
Thanks to the Euless Police Department and Det. Coffee for their work on this case and for their commitment to keeping our community safe. pic.twitter.com/n3mNx6bCfn
— Tarrant County DA (@TarrantCountyDA) February 25, 2026
What investigators say
Officers were called around 4:30 p.m. on Dec. 10, 2024, to reports of a shooting at the Village Green of Bear Creek Apartments in the 1800 block of Fuller Wiser Road. They found Borras with a gunshot wound to the chest. He was taken into surgery and later died. Those scene details and the identification of Borras as the victim were reported by The Dallas Morning News.
Euless detectives obtained an arrest warrant and arrested Silva on Dec. 16. Local reporting and police records indicate he was initially booked on a capital murder charge and that he also had outstanding Dallas County warrants for aggravated robbery, robbery, evading arrest and a theft charge, details that appear in coverage from Irving Weekly.
Prosecution and sentence
According to the Tarrant County DA, Assistant District Attorney Madeline Jones prosecuted the case, with Investigator Michael McGuire and victim coordinator Angela Stevens among the office staff assigned. Silva entered a guilty plea to murder before receiving a 40-year sentence. The DA credited evidence gathered by Euless detectives with helping secure the plea and the resulting prison term.
For Borras’s family, the plea and sentence close out a criminal case that began with a late-afternoon shooting at a neighborhood apartment complex. Law enforcement and prosecutors have framed the outcome as the result of a multiagency investigation that carried the case from the initial 911 call through arrest, prosecution and conviction.
