The alleged California homicide of a lacking 13-year-old soccer participant by his unlawful immigrant coach was “an avoidable crime and the results of failed border insurance policies,” a U.S. lawyer advised Fox Information.
Mario Edgardo Garcia-Aquino, 43, allegedly killed his participant, Oscar “Omar” Hernandez, in Lancaster on March 28, in accordance with Los Angeles County District Legal professional Nathan Hochman. A number of legislation enforcement sources advised Fox Information on Tuesday that Garcia-Aquino is an unlawful immigrant from El Salvador.
“This was an avoidable crime and the results of failed border insurance policies,” stated U.S. Legal professional for the Central District of California Invoice Essayli. “We can not and won’t tolerate unlawful aliens who flout our nation’s immigration legal guidelines then prey on kids. Federal legislation enforcement will proceed to be very aggressive in finding, apprehending, and prosecuting prison unlawful aliens.”
Garcia-Aquino illegally entered the U.S. as a “gotaway” at an unknown time and site, and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has had no earlier encounters with him, a senior ICE supply additionally advised Fox Information this week. ICE has since filed a detainer on him with the Los Angeles County jail.
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Oscar “Omar” Hernandez was discovered useless in Southern California final week after his household reported him lacking. (GoFundMe)
“13-year-old Oscar ‘Omar’ Hernandez was an harmless little one who was exploited and killed by this wicked unlawful alien who ought to have by no means been on this nation,” added Homeland Safety spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin. “Beneath President Trump and Secretary Noem’s management, little one predators, pedophiles and murderers will likely be hunted down and faraway from America’s communities.”
Hochman stated earlier this week that on the day of Hernandez’s alleged homicide, he “went as much as Lancaster to see Mr. Garcia-Aquino.
“Two days later he was reported lacking. And on April 2, 2025 final week, his physique was present in Oxnard off a highway close to Leo Carillo State Seaside,” Hochman added at a information convention.
His workplace stated Garcia-Aquino is charged with “one rely of homicide with the particular circumstance allegation of homicide throughout the fee or tried fee of lewd acts with a baby, making him eligible for the loss of life penalty.” Moreover, Garcia-Aquino faces a potential most sentence of life in jail with out parole.
The Los Angeles County District Legal professional’s Workplace individually charged Garcia-Aquino on Monday with one felony rely of assault with the intent to commit a sexual offense, following his alleged sexual assault of a 16-year-old boy in Palmdale in February 2024.
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Mario Edgardo Garcia-Aquino, the suspect in Oscar “Omar” Hernandez’s homicide, had “no reported prison historical past,” police say. (LAPD)
Garcia-Aquino was then charged on Tuesday with the alleged sexual assault of a 14-year-old boy in December 2022.
In an interview Wednesday on “Fox & Associates,” Hochman stated, “after we acquired the primary allegation in 2022… the DA’s workplace will get that in about August of 2023.”
“We do what we do in all circumstances. We analyze the proof, and we have now to not solely transfer swiftly, however we have now to win these circumstances past an inexpensive doubt in courtroom to a jury, a unanimous jury of 12. So we wish to be certain we get it proper. So we ship it again for additional investigation to construct out the case. And a few of these circumstances go rapidly and a few do not. This one didn’t,” he continued. “So the allegation for 2022 took really till the homicide allegation got here ahead most just lately, earlier than we have been in a position to develop the ultimate little bit of proof to cost him with the 2022 arrest and sexual assault of a minor.”
“Beneath my administration, sexual violence circumstances are a excessive, excessive precedence. And we’re ensuring that any kind of allegations like this are available in, there may be most cooperation from the start, so we hopefully don’t have a tragedy like this the place we take an individual like Mr. Garcia-Aquino out of the image earlier than he kills somebody,” Hochman added.
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Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna stated Garcia-Aquino “was a youth journey soccer coach with the Hurricane Valley Boys Soccer Membership within the Sylmar space working with completely different age divisions” and “he had no reported prison historical past.”
