Leslie Garcia-Juarez is a sixteen year old girl from Georgia who has been charged with two murders that occurred a year apart. Now it is rare for a teen girl to kill someone but being charged with two separate murders a year apart puts Leslie Garcia-Juarez in her own category. According to police Leslie Garcia-Juarez was charged with felony murder in the shooting death of Adaph Aimable.
Leslie Garcia-Juarez was arrested and being held in the Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice when she was charged with yet another murder that took place a year earlier where she has been accused of the shooting death of Osiel Montano who was found dead in an abandoned building shot in the head. Leslie Garcia-Juarez has been charged as an adult in both murders and if convicted faces life in prison without parole. Due to her age at the time of the murders she is not eligible for the death penalty
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A teenage girl has been charged with two separate murders almost a year apart in Gwinnett County.
Leslie Garcia-Juarez, 16, of Norcross, has been in the custody of the Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice, Regional Youth Detention Center in Gainesville since the end of last year charged with aggravated assault and felony murder in connection to the murder of a 22-year-old Duluth resident Adaph Aimable
On Monday, Leslie Garcia-Juarez was charged with felony murder and aggravated assault in a separate case that happened almost a year to the day earlier and less than four miles away at a Norcross apartment.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation said the body of Osiel Montano, 19, of Norcross, had been found in an abandoned apartment at the Spring Lake Apartment complex located at 100 Chase Common Drive on Dec. 30, 2019. Investigators said Montano suffered from a single gunshot wound to the head.
The Norcross Police Department requested the help of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.
After a lengthy investigation, the GBI was able to link Garcia-Juarez to crime. She is being charged as an adult in both cases.
Trevone Miller was an eighteen year old teen killer from Arkansas who would murder a transgender teen in order to cover up the relationship. According to court documents Trevone Miller and Brayla Stone were involved in a sexual relationship when he became paranoid his friends would find out so he would murder seventeen year old Brayla Stone and left her dead inside of a van. Trevone Miller who had previously been convicted of murder would plead guilty and was sentenced to forty years in prison plus an additional ten years for a gun enhancement
Trevone Miller 2023 Information
ADC Number178501
Name:Miller, Trevone H
Race BLACK
Sex MALE
Hair Color UNKNOWN
Initial Receipt Date 09/10/2021
Delta Regional Unit
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Six years after his involvement in the fatal robbery of one teenager, 20-year-old Trevone Hayse Miller of Sherwood is going to prison for killing another teen, a transgender girl whom prosecutors say Miller murdered to cover up their sexual relationship.
Friends and acquaintances told Sherwood police that Trevone Miller was afraid that people would think he was gay and that 17-year-old Brayla Stone of North Little Rock had told him she was going to make their relationship public.
Sentencing papers filed Thursday describe Miller’s motive for killing Stone in June 2020. Documents show Miller, who turned 20 last week, pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in exchange for a 50-year sentence imposed by Pulaski County Circuit Judge Barry Sims.
Trevone Miller, jailed since his arrest about a week after the killing, will have to serve 35 years before he can apply for parole, which will make him 53 when he becomes eligible for early release given credit for time served. Under the conditions of his plea deal, negotiated by attorney Birc Morledge and chief deputy prosecutor John Johnson, the charge was reduced from capital murder.
Stone’s murder, three weeks after her 17th birthday, drew national attention from LGBT advocates, coming during what the Human Rights Campaign reported was a record year for fatal violence against transgender or gender non-confirming people. Stone was the 17th known victim in a year that ultimately had at least 44 such slayings.
“Brayla Stone was a child. A child, just beginning to live her life. A child of trans experience. A young Black girl who had hopes and dreams, plans and community,” said Tori Cooper with Transgender Justice Initiative at the time. “As a nation, we failed Brayla — as we have failed every transgender or gender non-conforming person killed in a country that embraces violence and upholds transphobia, racism, homophobia.”
Stone, born Braylen Stone, was found dead by a passerby inside a black Saturn Vue on a gravel walking trail closest to 7224 Vista Point Court, within view of Gap Creek Drive. She’d been reported missing to North Little Rock police shortly before her body was found.
Stone had been shot through the head with her body lying upside down on the front passenger floorboard with her legs resting on the seat’s backrest. The driver’s-side window had been broken out. Blood spattered the car’s interior, with investigators noting a strong smell of bleach inside, along with discoloration marks from the clearing agent inside the car and on some of the contents, according to police reports.
According to an arrest affidavit, Trevone Miller quickly became a person of interest for Sherwood police. The manager at the Arby’s restaurant where Miller worked, Lekeia Tutt, called to report that Miller had not shown up for work the day before the girl’s body was found. Miller had called her, saying “I f * * * * * up and I f * * * * * up big time,” and “I messed up and won’t be back for a very long time, if ever.”
Trevone Miller would not answer when Tutt asked him what he had done, only telling her to watch the news. Tutt called police as soon as she learned that a body had been found in Sherwood.
Audrey Jackson, a friend of Stone’s, said that the day before she was found dead, Stone had discovered that Miller was having a relationship with a 19-year-old woman.
That same evening, Miller texted Stone to meet him, and Jackson said Stone was talking to her over the phone while waiting in front of Miller’s home to meet with him, Jackson told police. The phone call ended with Stone telling her, “here he comes,” the affidavit states.
Five hours later — about 15 hours before Stone was found dead — Jackson told police that she received a text message from Stone saying that Stone was “not up for this.”
Jackson also told police that Stone had told other people about her relationship with Miller but that Miller had been paying Stone to keep quiet. Jackson said the location where Stone’s body was found was significant because Miller was known for using the location to have sex.
Tionne Foreman, the woman Trevone Miller had been seeing, told police that Miller had told her Stone was going to expose him. Foreman further told investigators that Miller was afraid of being considered homosexual and that he had said he planned to kill Stone, a threat Foreman and her friends did not take seriously.
A friend of Foreman’s, Angela Dean, told police that she had overheard a phone conversation between Foreman and a “stressed” Miller the day before Stone was found dead.
Dean told investigators that Miller made a suicidal comment during the conversation but then quickly dropped the idea of harming himself to say that he instead planned to kill Stone, despite her and Foreman’s efforts to calm him down.
A cousin of Foreman’s, Mhalik Coleman, also told police that he overheard Miller on the phone with Foreman telling her he was going to kill Stone, further describing a call to Foreman after Stone’s slaying in which Miller told Foreman that Stone was dead, according to the affidavit.
The affidavit also shows that investigators noted similarities between Stone’s killing and the April 2016 murder of 17-year-old Bryan Allen Thompson in the parking lot of the Bill Harmon Recreation Center in Sherwood. Thompson was found dead, shot in the throat, behind the wheel of his car by a worker at the center. Miller was one of three teenagers charged in his death.
In both cases, the shooter fired a weapon from the passenger’s seat, “which prevented a quick escape of the victim who was seated in the driver’s seat,” Sherwood detective Craig Grisham noted.
Both killings also took place in a location “very familiar” to Trevone Miller while also being close to his home, “which would allow an easily undetected escape from the scene,” Grisham stated in the arrest affidavit.
Miller did not kill Thompson but he did witness his murder close up, sitting in the back seat of Thompson’s vehicle, he told investigators at the time. His account of Thompson’s killing helped identify which of the three suspects shot the victim.
At 14, Miller was the youngest of the three teens arrested. Authorities said Thompson’s killing began as a robbery plot set up by Xavier Terrell Porter of North Little Rock, who lured Thompson to the recreation center with the promise of buying marijuana from Thompson. Porter knew Thompson because they had worked together at a restaurant.
Porter never got in the car. When Thompson arrived, Miller and the third teen, Quincy Parks of Sherwood, got into the car. Parks carried a pistol that Porter had given him and sat in the front, while Miller, carrying a broken BB gun in his pants, got in the back.
Miller told police that Thompson was measuring the marijuana when Parks suddenly got out of the car and fired a shot, which surprised Miller. Parks grabbed money from the vehicle, about $15, and they all left. Police found about a pound of marijuana in the car, and arrested all three within a day.
Six months later, in October 2016, Miller made a deal with prosecutors to plead guilty to aggravated robbery in juvenile court and to testify against his co-defendants with the capital-murder charge against him dropped.
Miller never had to testify. Parks, now 20, and Porter, now 22, each went on to plead guilty. Porter accepted a 10-year sentence for aggravated robbery, while Parks received a 20-year sentence for aggravated robbery and first-degree murder.
Authorities identified Porter as the killer based on Miller’s statement to police and surveillance video from the Shelby Road recreation center.
Lost For Life is a powerful documentary concerning teen killers who were sentenced to life. In this article we are going to take a look at the most stand out cases featured on Lost For Life and where they are in 2023. If you have not seen Lost For Life I highly recommend it and you can find it on YouTube or below
Lost For Life Documentary
https://youtu.be/YacWzgdRUKw
Lost For Life : Torey Adamcik And Brian Draper
Torey Adamcik and Brian Draper are the two teen killers responsible for the murder of Cassie Jo Stoddart. The two teen killers who videotaped themselves before and after the murder would ultimately be sentenced to life without parole. As of 2021 Torey Adamcik and Brian Draper would remain behind bars
Josiah Ivy was a teen killer from Colorado who during a home invasion would shoot and kill two people. This is a troubling case as Josiah Ivy was raised in a cult situation and suffered from an assortment of abuses. Josiah Ivy was sentence to life in prison and that has not changed with his eligibility for release not until 2082
Jacob Ind was a teen killer from Colorado who who murder his mother and his stepfather with the help of a classmate Gabriel Adams. Gabriel Adams would ultimately commit suicide in prison. Jacob Ind was originally sentenced to life however his sentence was later reduced to forty years in prison and he was ultimately paroled in 2019
Gustavo Garcia was sentenced to death by the State of Texas for a murder committed during a robbery. According to court documents Gustavo Garcia would attempt to rob a store and when the victim, Craig Turski attempted to flee he was shot and killed. Gustavo Garcia who was eighteen years old when he committed the murder was sentenced to death and would be executed by lethal injection on February 16, 2016
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After 24 years on Texas death row, a re-sentencing trial and an unsuccessful escape attempt, Gustavo Julian Garcia was executed Tuesday night. He was 43.
Garcia was sentenced to death in 1992 after confessing to the murders of two clerks during separate robberies, according to court documents. On Tuesday, his only personal witness was his spiritual advisor. Family members of one of the victims were also present.
At 6:10 p.m., witnesses shuffled from the clear, warm night into the death house, where Garcia was already strapped to a gurney. He was asked if he had any last words.
“Yes, sir,” he replied. “To my family, to my mom, I love you. God bless you, stay strong.”
A lethal dose of pentobarbital began streaming into the IV already inserted into his tattooed arm. Garcia, in prison whites and black-rimmed glasses, looked straight at the ceiling with a calm expression on his face. A minute later, he yawned and his eyelids drooped. At 6:26 p.m., he was pronounced dead.
It was the third execution in Texas this year, and the sixth in the United States.
In December 1990, Garcia, 18 at the time, and 15-year-old Christopher Vargas entered a liquor store with a sawed-off shotgun, according to court documents. They stole money and beer, and Garcia shot the clerk, Craig Turski, in the stomach and head.
The two weren’t arrested until a month later, when they were caught at a Texaco where another clerk, 18-year-old Gregory Martin, had been shot and killed. Garcia confessed to the murders, and he was sentenced to death for Turski’s death in January 1992, according to court documents. He was never tried in Martin’s case.
Martin’s sister, brother-in-law and friend attended Garcia’s execution. No one related to Turski was there. Garcia’s spiritual advisor, Father Clifton Labbe, stood at the front of the viewing area and stared at Garcia’s face
Garcia’s long stretch on death row wasn’t uneventful. More than six years into his sentence, on Thanksgiving night 1998, Garcia took part in an escape attempt that ended with the death of another death row inmate, Martin Gurule, according to the Dallas Morning News.
The inmates crept under a fence, climbed a roof and sprinted across the prison yard, the Morning News reported. Garcia and five other inmates surrendered on the lawn after guards began shooting at them, but Gurule managed to get over the outer fence. He was found dead a week later, apparently drowned in a nearby creek.
About two years later, then-Texas Attorney General John Cornyn discovered that psychologist Walter Quijano, who testified at Garcia’s original sentencing trial, had claimed in testimony that Hispanics were more likely to pose a future danger to society, according to court documents. Quijano said he came to that belief because Hispanics were overrepresented in the prison population.
Garcia and several other inmates whose death sentences had been influenced by Quijano’s improper testimony were granted new sentencing trials, but Garcia was again sentenced to death in 2001, according to the attorney general’s office.
In August, a Collin County judge set his execution date. His latest appeal to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals was denied Feb. 9, and the U.S. Supreme Court denied his request for a stay and new hearing the next day.
On his final day, Garcia visited with family and friends, according to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
“He was complacent,” TDCJ spokesman Robert Hurst said.
Texas executed 13 men last year, according to TDCJ. Nine more inmates have executions scheduled through July.
Brandon Jones was executed by the State of Georgia for the murder of a store clerk. According to court documents Brandon Jones and Van Roosevelt Solomon would enter a store and in the process of robbing it would shoot and kill the manager Roger Tackett in 1979. Both men would be sentenced to death, Van Roosevelt Solomon was executed by way of the electric chair in 1985. Brandon Jones would be executed by lethal injection on February 3, 2016
The execution had been scheduled for 7 p.m. Tuesday. Jones, the fifth-oldest inmate executed in the nation, waited in a holding cell a few steps from the death chamber as the appointed time came and went amid a flurry of last-minute court filings for mercy.
Jones fought death. His eyes closed within a minute of the warden leaving the execution chamber, but 6 minutes later his eyes popped open. He looked at a clock on the wall, and then appeared to look at the man who prosecuted him in 1979, former Cobb County District Attorney Tom Charron, who was sitting on the front row.
After he died, about 15 of his supporters and death-penalty opponents, who were gathered about a mile from the execution building, held hands and prayed.
One supporter, Carole Butcher, said she had been writing Jones for about 15 years from her home in the United Kingdom. “We had our ups and downs. He supported me through my ups and downs,” Butcher said tearfully.
Jones’ attorneys waged a legal battle through the final hours to spare the 72-year-old from being executed for the 1979 murder of Roger Tackett, who managed a Tenneco convenience store and gas station in Cobb County.
The battle ended at about 11 p.m. Tuesday, when U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas denied requests for a stay, allowing the execution to go forward.
No final statement
Three friends and 11 family members visited Jones on his last full day of life, as did a lawyer and an investigator.
Afterward, Jones ate his final meal — the same dinner served every other inmate at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison near Jackson: chicken, rutabagas, turnip greens, dry white beans, cornbread, fruit punch and, for dessert, bread pudding.
Jones declined to make a final statement, although he did record a message several hours before his execution.
Although a majority of those judges rejected his request for a stay, five of the judges in four dissents sharply criticized the secrecy law.
“Today Brandon Jones will be executed, possibly in violation of the Constitution,” 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Robin Rosenbaum wrote in one of the dissenting opinions. “He may also be cruelly and unusually punished in the process. But if he is, we will not know until it’s too late — if ever.”
Pardons and Paroles
Challenges to secrecy laws have failed repeatedly in Georgia and in other states with similar statutes.
These laws were adopted as it became increasingly hard to secure lethal injection drugs from makers who were under public pressure from death penalty opponents.
Opponents, however, say the laws make it impossible to ensure that the drugs made are pure and will not cause an unnecessarily painful death.
Jones and Van Roosevelt Solomon were both sentenced to die for murdering Tackett, who had stayed at the Tenneco convenience store after closing to finish paperwork so he would be free to attend Father’s Day Mass with his daughter and wife.
Jones worked for Solomon at his painting business. The two had set out to burglarize the Tenneco.
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