A youth soccer coach was arrested and accused of murder for the death of Oscar “Omar” Hernández, 13, a resident of San Fernando Valley found dead in Oxnard on April 2 after his family informed him that he disappeared two days before.
Hernández’s body was found in a wooded area near Harbour Boulevard in Oxnard, according to the office of the Ventura County Forensic Doctor. Hernández was a student at Sun Valley Magnet.
Mario Edgardo García-Aquino, 43, or the Antílope Valley, is accused of killing Hernández on March 28, announced the district prosecutor of Los Angeles, Nathan Hochman, announced on Monday, April 7.
García-Aquino was tasks in custody in Los Angeles. No information about the child’s death or how Hernández ended in Oxnard, a city to more than 100 miles from Lancaster, was immediately available.
The complaint of serious crime, presented on Monday, April 7, includes an accusation of special circumstances that the crime occurred while the suspect was involved in the commission or attempt to commission a lascive and lascivious act of less than 14 years.
“That day, Oscar Hernández approached Lancaster to see Mr. García-Aquino. Two days later, he was reported as missing,” said Hochman.
His family reported him missing on March 30 when he returned home after boarding a train to the Antílope Valley to help García-Aquino, according to relations. He was never heard again. A gofundme was created for Hernández’s commemorative expenses and support for his family.
García-Aquino worked as a coach for youthful travel football at the Hurricane Valley Boys Soccer Club, where he trained several age groups, according to Sheriff Robert Luna.
On Wednesday, April 2, García-Aquino was arrested under suspicion of a position not related to the death of Hernández, related to an assault case of February 2024 with the intention of committing a lascivious law.
The February 2024 charges presented against García-Aquino Voice of an assault that supposedly occurred on February 22, 2024 in Palmdale, involving a 16-year-old boy. García-Aquino “became friends” of a Sylmar family, who allowed his youth son to stay with him in Palmdale. The family reported sexual abuse to the Palmdale Sheriff Station after that stay, Luna explained.
The detectives learned that the Los Angeles Police Department was investigating an instance of unrelated abuse. The Sheriff Department and the Police Department have jointly presented the serious assault crime with the intention of committing a lascivious law.
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“No matter what his state of documentation, we have a young man who was killed, killed …”, said Luna, emphasizing that the state of immigration is not a problem when informing any crime.
“We are looking at everything,” Luna said when he was asked if the authorities believe there are more assault victims or possible more missing people connected to García-Aquino.
Hernández’s family joined Hochman when he announced the charges along with Lapd Chief Jim McDonnell and Luna, some family members dressed in shirts with Hernández’s photo.
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Hochman referred to a new death penalty policy, under which his office will determine whether or not it is appropriate in this case.
