A man was sentenced to life in prison without parole for the killing of a Houston police officer.

Arturo Solis, 27, was sentenced Monday after he pleaded guilty to capital murder in the fatal December 2019 shooting of 32-year-old Houston police Sgt. Christopher Brewster, who was responding to a domestic disturbance call from Solis's girlfriend, according to KHOU 11.

“Our community will be forever... safe from this selfish coward, who senselessly murdered a police sergeant," said Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg. “Sgt. Brewster’s family’s wishes were taken into consideration, and this defendant will spend every day for the rest of his life in prison."

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Solis shot Brewster multiple times, with one of the shots landing just above his bulletproof vest, according to former Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo. Brewster had not drawn his weapon when he confronted Solis.

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Arturo Solis, 25, is taken away with no bond after appeared to Judge Danilo Lacayo at the 182nd Judicial District Court at Harris County Criminal Justice Center on Monday, Dec. 9, 2019, in Houston. (Yi-Chin Lee/AP)


Solis later admitted he killed Brewster because he didn't want to go to jail. The 2019 attack was not his first act of violence — he was convicted in 2015 for assaulting a woman and spent 70 days in jail.

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Acevedo blamed Sens. John Cornyn, Ted Cruz, and Mitch McConnell for the death of Brewster shortly after his death, saying he did not "want to see their little smug faces about how much they care about law enforcement when I’m burying a sergeant."

His words were criticized by the Houston Police Officers' Union, which said it was "neither the time or place" for such accusations.