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Sean Markey’s parents, Tricia Thompson-Ruger and Sean Markey, embrace after the guilty verdict was announced in court Monday morning in the trial of Izaiah Garcia. He was found guilty of first-degree depraved-mind murder in the shooting death of 17-year-old Sean Markey in 2019. (Roberto E. Rosales/Albuquerque Journal)
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A jury on Monday found Izaiah Garcia guilty of first-degree depraved-mind murder in the shooting death of a 17-year-old Sandia High School student outside a homecoming party in 2019.
The 2nd Judicial District Court jury also found Garcia, 20, guilty of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon for shooting at a second man described by prosecutors as the intended target of the shooting.
Guilty verdict reached in Izaiah Garcia trial
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. Prosecutors painted a picture of revenge that ended with a 17-year-old bystander dead outside an Albuquerque house party. A defense attorney tried to pick apart that story with accusations of a sloppy police investigation, unreliable witnesses and too many guns.
The back-and forth unfolded Friday during closing arguments in the first-degree murder trial of 20-year-old Izaiah Garcia, who stands accused of killing Sandia High School student Sean Markey on Sept. 29, 2019.
Garcia is also charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and tampering with evidence in the case. Jurors were sent home for the weekend and will continue deliberations Monday morning.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Day three brought new testimony in the murder trial of Izaiah Garcia, who is accused of shooting and killing an Albuquerque high school student at a homecoming party two years ago.
Jack Henderson took the witness stand Friday morning, describing how his quiet evening at home turned into chaos. My wife and I were in the den of our home watching television, Henderson said. “We were just watching television when we heard what we thought at first might have been fireworks but very soon afterwards realized was rapid gunfire.
Prosecutors said Garcia shot and killed Sandia High School senior Sean Markey at a party, but Markey was not the intended target.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - The trial of Izaiah Garcia continued Thursday with the defendant s friends taking the stand to testify.
Jury members heard from several of Garcia’s friends and acquaintances on the first full day of testimony.
“We were really close, he was one of my really good friends,” said Gabriel Marquez, a friend of Garcia’s.
Prosecutors said Christian Mattock was the person Garcia intended to kill the night of a homecoming party in Sept. 2019. This was after Mattock allegedly pistol-whipped Garcia a year before the party. How many times did Izaiah tell you that he hated Christian Mattock?” prosecutors asked Garcia during the trial.
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