Soldier Back From Afghanistan, Killed On LA Street

UPDATE

Army: Sylmar Soldier Killed Sunday Never Served In Afghanistan Despite LAPD Reports
November 12, 2014

Hundreds mourn Army vet who survived Afghanistan, but not LA streets
FoxNews.com
Published November 10, 2014

Hundreds gathered Sunday at a makeshift sidewalk memorial in Los Angeles to honor an Army soldier who had been gunned down hours earlier, just months after returning from the treacherous battlefields of Afghanistan.

Francisco Garcia, 21, was killed moments after leaving a party that had carried in to Sunday's wee hours when an unknown assailant pulled up in a car, confronted him and then fired the deadly shot, police said. Garcia, who had been honorably discharged after an 18-month stint in Afghanistan and hoped to become a California Highway Patrol officer, was pronounced dead at the scene.

“The ironies are obvious,” Los Angeles Police Department Lt. Paul Vernon told KTLA-TV in Los Angeles.

“To survive as a soldier in an overseas conflict, only to be killed in your old neighborhood upon your return.”
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