A 25-year-old man in Texas will spend decades behind bars for killing his 22-year-old girlfriend, fatally shooting her because she told him that she would not have his baby. Bexar County District Judge Christine Del Prado on Monday ordered Adam Byrd to serve 40 years in a state correctional facility for the 2023 slaying of Jade Alvarez, court records reviewed by Law&Crime show.

Byrd formally pleaded guilty no contest to one count of murder, two counts of aggravated robbery, and an additional count of possession of a controlled substance. He was also sentenced to 15 years for each of the robbery charges, but the sentences will run concurrently, meaning at the same time.

The sentence did not go over well with the victim’s family members, several of whom were in court on Monday, according to a report from San Antonio ABC affiliate 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.