The state Supreme Court has denied a second post-conviction relief to a Gulfport man convicted in the rape and murder of a 5-year-old girl in 2014. Alberto Garcia was sentenced to death in 2017 after confessing to raping and hanging…
The state Supreme Court has denied post-conviction relief to a Gulfport man convicted in the rape and murder of a 5-year-old girl in 2014. Alberto Garcia was sentenced to death in 2017 after confessing to raping and hanging to death…
The Mississippi Supreme Court has denied a motion for rehearing in the case of Alberto Garcia versus the state of Mississippi. Garcia pled guilty and was convicted in the brutal killing of five-year-old Janaya Thompson in Gulfport in 2014. Garcia…
The Mississippi State Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence and verdict of a Gulfport man convicted in the brutal death of a five-year-old girl back in 2014. The Supreme Court affirmed the sentence against Alberto Garcia, saying “the sentence…
Alberto Garcia has been sentenced to death in the murder of five-year-old Ja’Naya Thompson. This sentencing was handed down two and a half years after the heart wrenching discovery of her body in Gulfport. News 25 was in the courtroom…
Facing sentencing for the 2014 murder of Ja’Naya Thompson, Alberto Garcia told a detective he ‘always tries to stay on the straight and narrow.'It could take as long as Thursday to decided Garcia’s sentencing. Facing death or life without parole,…
It’s a heartbreaking story that left many wondering why. Another step in the path to justice for the brutal murder of Ja'Naya Thompson as the man charged with her murder pleads guilty. It was a somber courtroom as Alberto Garcia…
In a case that broke hearts across the Coast when it happened, then five-year-old Janaya Thompson's killer pleads guilty to capital murder. Alberto Garcia originally pled not guilty in October 2015, but changed his plea in front of Judge Lisa…
The State of Mississippi vs. Alberto Julio Garcia for the capital murder of Janaya Thompson will be heard by a grand jury.