In Ohio, one of the individuals involved in the kidnapping and murder of two Toledo teens received his sentence on Thursday.
Gabriel Garcia, who took a plea deal, was found guilty on two counts of abduction, both third-degree felonies, in the kidnapping of Kyshawn Pittman and Ke'Marion Wilder in December 2022.
Judge Lori Olender sentenced Gabriel Garcia to four years in prison on June 20.
He will receive credit for the 435 days he has already served.
Garcia is among nearly a dozen people already convicted in connection with this case.
Charles Walker and Brent Kohlhoffer were found guilty by a jury of murdering the boys and were sentenced to life in prison.
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Cruz Garcia took a plea deal in January 2024 and was convicted on two counts of involuntary manslaughter.
Carissa Eames was convicted on two counts of complicity in the commission of felonious assault and complicity in the commission of kidnapping.
Don Eames pleaded guilty to two counts of involuntary manslaughter, one count of kidnapping, one count of tampering with evidence, and one count of obstructing justice.
Corbin Gingrich entered a guilty plea on May 1, but the details of his plea are under seal; he was initially charged with two counts of murder and two counts of kidnapping.
Two juveniles were found guilty in 2023; one was convicted of obstructing justice, and another was convicted of two counts of felonious assault.
Diamond Rivera and Crystal Laforge-Yingling were both convicted on charges of obstructing justice.
Prosecutors argued that the murders were a case of revenge.
They claimed the teens were killed because they allegedly broke into the homes of some of the defendants, stealing guns and drugs.
The boys’ bodies were left in ash and rubble for ten days before being discovered by police.
Kaitlyn Tauber, the prosecutor, explained that the series of events began when the homes of Brent Kohlhoffer, Charles Walker, and Cruz Garcia’s mother were broken into in November 2022.
Co-defendant Corbin Gingrich was also robbed.
On the day of the incident, the teens were kicked out of a birthday party at Maumee Bay State Park for brandishing a gun.
Gingrich believed the gun with the teens was his.
Gingrich then arranged for the boys to take an Uber to his house on Maumee Street.
Brent Kohlhoffer’s defense attorney, Justin Weatherly, argued that his client did not kill the teens.
He claimed that Gingrich, Don Eames, and Gabe Garcia were responsible.
Weatherly stated, “They rushed the two teenagers, took their guns, tied them up with HDMI cables, and beat and pistol-whipped them in the basement where no one could hear them scream.
The kids died from strangulation and blunt force trauma.”
Despite Weatherly's claims of Kohlhoffer’s innocence, prosecutors maintained that Kohlhoffer and Walker were called to the house to transport the teens.
Tauber concluded, “The defendants drove away with the two duct-taped teenage victims in Walker’s car. The boys were never seen alive again.”
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