More details about the Thanksgiving Day shooting of a 14-year-old came out during a preliminary hearing for the suspect.
Kevin Garcia was in court as a detective testified about the events that led up to the shooting of 14-year-old Angel Juarez. Juarez was shot to death as he opened the door of his family’s home.
A Lexington detective said that Garcia had been looking for Juarez’s older brother.
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Garcia told detectives that Juarez’s older brother had set up a robbery that had occurred at a nearby park. Garcia and a man named Jose Ayala went to the Henton Road home later. They were told he wasn’t there. As they started to leave, 14-year-old Angel Juarez opened the door. That’s when witnesses say that Garcia opened fire, striking Juarez multiple times.
Garcia allegedly told Ayala to “not talk to police” and that he was fleeing the state and going to North Carolina.
Garcia was captured in West Virginia. When interviewed by detectives, police say that he confessed to opening fire and that he threw the weapon in the Kentucky River.
Juarez was a student at Leestown Middle.
