Jurors convict man of murder at north McAllen shopping center

April 12, 2011 8:28 PM
Jared Taylor
The Monitor

EDINBURG — It took the dozen women and men nearly eight hours to decide Irving Garcia’s fate.

Jurors finally chose to convict the 21-year-old illegal immigrant of murder in a June 2010 fatal shooting at a north McAllen shopping center — labeled by prosecutors and police [b]as an “alarmingâ€