Oscar Aristides Garcia, 35, pleaded guilty in October to murder for the 2018 shooting death of 37-year-old Nicolas Bautista who was falsely accused of being a tailgate thief.
A Texas auto shop owner has been sentenced to 35 years in prison after he shot dead an innocent man he falsely accused of being a thief — and then later fled the country to his native El Salvador to evade justice.
Oscar Aristides Garcia was sentenced to 35 years in prison after pleading guilty to murder in a case of mistaken identity.Nicolas Bautista, 37, was shot and killed in Oct. 2018 in front of his girlfriend after being mistaken for a thief by Garcia.According to investigators, Garcia was in his Pasadena, Texas, transmission-repair shop on Oct. 28, 2018, when he saw Bautista walk by with his girlfriend. The couple were on their way to a restaurant for Sunday brunch.
After finding that the restaurant near Garcia’s shop was closed, Bautista and his girlfriend took an Uber to another eatery, with Garcia following them, according to prosecutors. When Bautista turned around and walked away to call the police, prosecutors said Garcia shot him in the back. He was pronounced dead at a hospital a short time later.
The gunman then returned to his own shop and destroyed his security camera’s recording device so there would be no record of Bautista walking by the business, investigators said.
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