The football instructor of a 13-year-old that was discovered dead after his household reported him missing out on recently has actually been butted in the teenager’s murder, authorities revealed on Monday.
Oscar Omar Hernandez, of the San Fernando Valley, was reported missing out on by his household on March 30 after he “fell short to return home from seeing an associate in Lancaster,” Los Angeles cops stated recently.
Oscar Omar Hernandez is seen in a picture on a t-shirt used by a relative throughout a press instruction in Los Angeles, April 7, 2025.
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The teenager had actually mosted likely to see his football instructor– 43-year-old Mario Edguardo Garcia-Aquino– 2 days previously, according to Los Angeles Region Area Lawyer Nathan Hochman.
Oscar was discovered dead on Wednesday in the city of Oxnard, west of Los Angeles, off sideways of a roadway near Leo Carrillo State Coastline, Hochman stated.
Garcia-Aquino has actually been billed with murder with unique conditions on Monday, Hochman stated.
The suspect has actually independently additionally been billed with a felony matter of attack with intent to dedicate a salacious act versus a 16-year-old young boy, Hochman stated. Garcia-Aquino was detained on Wednesday on that particular fee, which came from a supposed occurrence in Palmdale on Feb. 22, 2024, authorities stated.
” These situations are heartbreaking, and the Hernandez household, you have our inmost compassion for a loss that words can not also start to define,” Hochman stated at a press instruction on Monday. “Our function, however, is to bring justice to this household and to hold the individual in charge of these ruthless, horrendous, offensive, unimaginable acts, hold them answerable and prosecute and penalize them fully level of the legislation.”
The Los Angeles Region Constable’s Workplace presents a publication including images of Mario Edguardo Garcia-Aquino throughout a press instruction, April 7, 2025.
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Hochman stated he does not have any type of information on just how Oscar was eliminated currently.
Garcia-Aquino is arranged to show up in court on Tuesday, Hochman stated.
If founded guilty, the suspicious encounters a sentence of at the very least life without the opportunity of parole for the murder fee or the death sentence, Hochman stated. He additionally encounters 6 years behind bars if founded guilty of the attack fee, Hochman stated.
Authorities are asking any type of affirmed targets of the suspect or any person with info ahead onward.
The household of Oscar Omar Hernandez is seen throughout a press instruction in Los Angeles, April 7, 2025.
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” There’s constantly a worry that there’s even more targets, and we intend to see to it we represent everyone that’s around,” Los Angeles Region Constable Robert Luna stated at the instruction.
Garcia-Aquina was a young people traveling football instructor with a kids’ football club in the Sylmar location, according to Los Angeles Region Constable Robert Luna. He had actually no reported criminal background, the constable stated.
” If somehow any person is afraid stepping forward, also as a young people or a family members, since you might be right here undocumented, we’re not mosting likely to inquire about that,” Luna stated. “Please. You require ahead onward. We will certainly help you– whether it’s our division, the Los Angeles Authorities Division, the LA Region Area Lawyer’s Workplace– any one of us are mosting likely to cover our arms around you and see to it that you obtain the proper solutions. We direct you the proper way and we safeguard you too.”
Friends and family hold a vigil for Oscar Omar Hernandez in Los Angeles, April 3, 2025.
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Oscar’s relative went to journalism instruction yet did not make a public remark.
Friends and family of Oscar commemorated the teenager on Thursday at the website where the body was discovered on the side of a roadway in Oxnard.
” He really did not require to be dealt with like a pet. That was my boy,” his mommy, Gladys Bautista, sobbed out in Spanish, ABC Information’ Los Angeles terminal KABC reported.
