A Travis County jury has found Sherles Machado-Hernandez guilty of capital murder in the shooting deaths of his common-law wife and her boyfriend outside a Southeast Austin apartment complex in 2024. Jurors convicted Machado-Hernandez in the killings of 27-year-old Francis Kaina Anseume Corredor and 19-year-old Bryan Florentino Flores Alvarez, who were shot in the early morning hours of October 14, 2024, on Burton Drive.
The verdict, reported by KXAN Austin, closes out a case that began with a chaotic overnight scene at the Burton Drive apartment complex. Apartment surveillance video showed Anseume Corredor arriving in her SUV at 2:50 a.m., followed roughly 35 minutes later by a vehicle belonging to Machado-Hernandez, according to KVUE. The footage captured Machado-Hernandez approaching her car shortly before both Anseume Corredor and Flores Alvarez, who was killed just outside his apartment complex, were shot, according to MySA. Anseume Corredor and Machado-Hernandez had been in a common-law marriage, and Flores Alvarez had been dating Anseume Corredor at the time of the shooting, MySA reported.
An AMBER Alert and a Frantic Search for Three Children
The double homicide set off a statewide AMBER Alert for Anseume Corredor’s three children, ages 10, 4, and 2. The children were safely recovered after a relative told police that Machado-Hernandez had dropped them off at an East Austin location on Decker Lane, the station's report noted, before they were taken into state custody.
Machado-Hernandez did not get far. Police caught up with him the same night in North Austin after tracking a vehicle driven by his brother; officers found Machado-Hernandez hiding in the backseat during a traffic stop coordinated with an Air1 helicopter unit on Fairfield Drive, per the same account.
A Pending CPS Interview and an Altered School Address
The killings came just one day before Machado-Hernandez was scheduled to sit for a forensic child interview tied to an active Child Protective Services case, according to KVUE. School records reviewed as part of that CPS matter indicated Machado-Hernandez had recently changed the children’s school enrollment address to Niederwald, the outlet reported.
After his arrest, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement placed an immigration detainer on Machado-Hernandez while he was held in the Travis County Jail, according to FOX 7 Austin. Such detainers allow federal authorities to take custody of a detainee if they are released from local jail, the station noted.
Capital Murder Carries a Mandatory Life Sentence
Under Texas Penal Code § 19.03, murdering more than one person in the same criminal transaction is classified as capital murder, according to FindLaw. Texas law requires that a capital murder conviction result in either execution or life imprisonment without parole, and prosecutors in this case did not seek the death penalty, meaning Machado-Hernandez faces a mandatory sentence of life without parole under state law.
The October 14 shootings were logged as Austin’s 51st and 52nd homicides of 2024, according to Austin Police Department figures cited by KVUE. The 1800 block of Burton Drive saw further violence just two days later, when another man was killed nearby on October 16, 2024; police said that separate shooting was not connected to the double homicide.
Part of a Broader Pattern of Family Violence
The killing of Flores Alvarez was later cited in a report by the Texas Council on Family Violence documenting that domestic violence homicides across Texas in 2024 claimed the lives of 17 family members, friends, and bystanders beyond the primary intended victims. The report explicitly named the 19-year-old among those secondary victims, underscoring how intimate partner violence can claim lives beyond the immediate couple involved.
