Houston man gets 35 years after mistakenly killing man and fleeing to El Salvador

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Owner of a Houston transmission repair shop, Oscar Garcia, fled the country in 2018 after shooting a man he mistook for a thief.

Owner of a Houston transmission repair shop, Garcia, fled the country in 2018 after shooting a man he mistook for a thief.

Prosecutors asked that Garcia be sentenced to 50 years in prison. Garcia’s defense team argued for 15 years.Garcia was in his Pasadena transmission shop on Oct. 28, 2018, when he saw the victim, Nicolas Bautista, 37, walk by with his girlfriend. The couple was on their way to a restaurant for Sunday brunch. Garcia mistakenly believed Bautista was a man he thought was stealing pickup tailgates from the shop.

Garcia then closed the shop and left for his native country of El Salvador, leaving behind his pregnant wife and three children. He later sent for them, and they joined him there for a time.After more than two years, he returned to the United States and was arrested by U.S. marshals.

 

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This is typical of the the drug abusing douchebags that we allow to go unchecked unvetted and live amongst us. Our own druggie s are enough of a problem. You can’t tell me he wasn’t tweaking

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