Opinion ID: 1249958
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Heading: Garcia's First Statement

Text: At 7:05 a.m., Garcia gave a statement which the investigating officers recorded on videotape. He told the officers that after he made love to L.C., she went downstairs to the kitchen to get a glass of ice water. Garcia said that when he heard L.C. scream, he put on his shorts and went to the landing. He said he saw L.C. being held from behind by an Hispanic male with shoulder-length bushy and curly black hair, who was wearing blue jeans but no shirt. He yelled, Who is that? L.C. cried, Don't come down here, babe! Garcia then went into L.C.'s bedroom to get his baseball bat. As he returned to the landing, L.C. came up the stairs, holding her hands over a bleeding wound, and said, He stabbed me. Two days after L.C.'s death, her father and his wife took L.C.'s two-year-old son with them when they went to the funeral home to view L.C.'s body. Upon seeing his mother in the casket, the child started crying. When they left the funeral home, the son said to his grandfather, Daddy did it. [4] One week after L.C.'s death, the child saw a photograph of his mother on the wall of his grandfather's house and said to his grandfather, mama crying, mama and daddy fighting, mama bleeding.