A 13-year-old Sun Valley boy was allegedly murdered by his football coach and died of acute alcoholism, according to a civil lawyer for the victim’s family.
The discovery raises new questions about what happened in the hours of the death of seventh-grade student Omar Omar, known as Omar, — allegedly spent with his football coach, a man who had previously been accused of sexually abused a teenager.
“So many puzzles come together, but at the end of the day,” said Michael Carrillo, a civil attorney. [the Hernandezes’] The son is gone forever. ”
The 43-year-old youth football coach Mario Edgardo Garcia Aquino was charged with murder in an exceptional situation in early April, qualifying him for death.
Garcia Aquino is an undocumented immigrant from El Salvador, multiple law enforcement sources told The New York Times in April. These sources have no right to speak publicly about the case. About two months before President Trump launched a widespread raid on Los Angeles immigrant communities, the Department of Homeland Security posted information on alleged crimes on social media, saying Garcia Aquino was “degenerate illegal foreigners who were not supposed to be in this country.”
It is unclear how long Garcia Aquino has been in the United States and how he has been here.
An attempt to arrive at the Ventura County Medical Examiner’s Office on Sunday was unsuccessful, but Carillo confirmed they were told Omar’s cause of death was “acute alcoholism.”
“With the release of information from this family, the tragedy and trauma continues. First, he disappeared, and then found him in a ditch, and now they find it alcoholism.”
Omar took a train to Antelope Valley in late March to visit Garcia Aquino, youth travel football coach at the Silma Region Hurricane Valley Boys Football Club. When Omar failed to return home, his family reported that he was missing. Homicide detectives working at the same time as the FBI found his body in an Oxnard roadside ditch in early April.
On April 7, Garcia Aquino was charged with murder, including special circumstances charges of murder during the commission, or with the child to try obscene acts. Officials refused to say that Omar was killed at that time.
Garcia Aquino pleaded not guilty in a brief court appearance earlier this month. He will return to court in August, according to court records.
He was represented by the Los Angeles County Public Defender Office, which did not immediately respond to Sunday’s request for comment.
Subsequent reports showed that Garcia Aquino was the subject of two early investigations into alleged misconduct against children.
Law enforcement sources told The Times he was not charged in 2022 sexual assault charges because the alleged victim refused to testify.
But nearly a year before Garcia Aquino was charged with sexual abuse by another teenager. But he was not charged in this case for 10 months, until three days before Omar was killed, asking Garcia Aquino to seek a warrant.
The delay in filing a lawsuit was blamed on a backlog of nearly 10,000 cases due to a court staffing crisis and a former Los Angeles County ruling. Atti. According to the current region, George Gascon centralizes criminal documents electronically. Atti. Nathan Hochman and deputy. Atti. Ryan Erlich, president of the league representing the scoring prosecutor.
