SAN MARCOS
, Texas – The workplace of Hays County District Lawyer Kelly Higgins introduced right now {that a} 29-year-old Kyle man, Omar Galvan-Ochoa, was discovered responsible of homicide this week by a Hays County jury and was sentenced, on August 19, by that very same jury to life in jail together with a $10,000 advantageous, the utmost punishment allowed by regulation for the offense of homicide.
The proof confirmed that on September 6, 2023, 46-year-old Aliaksandr Bushtser was filling his automobile with gasoline at a Valero station in Buda when the defendant drove into the gasoline station and shot Bushtser thrice within the again in an act of unprovoked, mindless violence. The Hays County Sheriff’s Workplace obtained surveillance video from the gasoline station, which confirmed the truck the defendant was driving when he shot and killed the sufferer. As a result of high quality of the surveillance video, detectives couldn’t make out a license plate for the automobile, however they have been capable of finally establish the automobile, owned by Galvan-Ochoa, by using FLOCK digicam photos. The id of the killer was additional confirmed by an area resident, who noticed the motive force of the truck throughout a separate altercation minutes after the homicide and known as 911 to supply the license plate variety of the truck. Galvan-Ochoa later tried to evade police earlier than his seize.
The case was prosecuted by Assistant District Attorneys Elizabeth Schmidt and Christopher Griffith. Following the decision, ADA Schmidt mentioned, “Bringing this killer to justice was really a workforce effort. We’d prefer to thank the Hays County Sheriff’s investigators, officers from the Kyle Police Division who assisted in apprehending the defendant, officers from the Buda Police Division who responded to the scene of the homicide, the sufferer help coordinators who went above and past, the authorized assistants who helped with voluminous discovery on this case, the DA investigators who tracked down many witnesses, and the entire witnesses who testified within the trial. We additionally admire the time and a spotlight of the jurors who reached an amazing verdict. We provide our deepest sympathies and condolences to the household of Aliaksandr Bushtser and hope some measure of peace is present in bringing his killer to justice.”
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