Youth soccer coach charged with murdering boy, 13: Cops
Mario Garcia-Aquino and Oscar Omar Hernandez

Left: Mario Garcia-Aquino (Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office). Right: Oscar Omar Hernandez (GoFundMe).

A youth soccer coach in California has been arrested for allegedly killing one of his players, a 13-year-old boy, and leaving his body on the side of the road.

Mario Edgardo Garcia-Aquino, 43, has been accused of murdering 13-year-old Oscar “Omar” Hernandez. Hernandez’s body was discovered in Ventura County recently. The Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan J. Hochman announced Garcia-Aquino’s arrest in a press release. The accused coach coached youth travel soccer.

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According to officials, Hernandez’s family allowed the boy to stay with the defendant at his home. Hernandez traveled by train on March 28 to Lancaster to his soccer coach’s home. The victim’s family reported him missing two days later after he was not responding to texts. Cops believe Garcia-Aquino killed Hernandez while doing or attempting to complete lewd acts with the boy. The child was found dead on the side of the road Wednesday in Oxnard, police said.

“No parent should ever have to endure the unimaginable pain and sorrow of learning their child has been murdered,” DA Hochman said. “Oscar simply boarded a train and little did he or his family know that he would never return. Sexual predators who target victims for their own gratification will be held accountable and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”

Hochman did not release the cause of death nor provide details about what led up to the murder. If convicted, Garcia-Aquino could face the death penalty or life in prison.

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