A statement repeated to a jury and sternly directed at the defendant rang true Wednesday afternoon: “I’m going to be in so much trouble,” bringing a decade-long criminal case to a close.
According to an emergency services report displayed in court, these were the words repeatedly uttered by 31-year-old Paul Anthony Garcia to an air evacuation team nearly a decade ago after he got behind the wheel of his pickup truck while under the influence of alcohol after leaving a party on Sept. 1, 2012.
Garcia drove into oncoming traffic and struck the vehicle of 24-year-old Destiny Ann Bruce, a Pipe Creek resident, killing her and seriously injuring her 11-yearold sister who was asleep in the backseat.
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