Friday, April 22, 2011

Man Convicted of Murder After Chest Tattoo Mural Depicts the Crime



My Fox - The discovery of a distinctive sketch-style tattoo on the chest of Garcia which appeared to depict a 2004 liquor store slaying eventually led to the conviction of the 25-year-old for murder. Los Angeles County Sheriff's homicide investigator Kevin Lloyd was flipping through snapshots of tattooed gang members in 2008 when he spotted the ink artwork which contained such details as the Christmas lights that lined the roof of the liquor store where 23-year-old John Juarez was gunned down, the direction his body fell, the bowed street lamp across the way and the street sign. Lloyd's discovery of the tattoo led to a homicide investigation, which in turn led to Garcia's arrest for the shooting, and his conviction this week for first-degree murder.


Talk about a tough break here, I mean who ever heard of getting convicted because of a tattoo? I'm no legal expert here but I would think any lawyer worth his jock strap would be able to point out the tattoo doesn't look exactly life like.  I mean there is what appears to be an Apache helicopter raining down fire on the streets. Was that part of the 2004 murder? Did this vato some how commandeer a multi-million dollar army fighting machine to settle some street vendetta?  And that's not even mentioning the fact that it doesn't even look like a real person getting gunned down, I'm pretty sure that's Mr. Peanut, monacle and everything.

Who get's convicted of murder for artwork of a helicopter gunning down a popular cartoon food salesman?