Suspect Arrested in 1991 Shooting
A 22-year-old man was arrested in his hometown of Tijuana, Mexico, this week on suspicion of fatally shooting a 14-year-old Tustin girl after a high school football game in 1991.
Robert Garcia and two of his cousins are accused of killing Lilia Vianey Guevara, a Westminster High School sophomore who had gone from the game to a Tustin home Sept. 13, 1991, for a birthday party.
Garcia and his two cousins, Ruben and Albert Guerrero, started a fistfight with some of the party-goers outside the house on Boleyn Circle, police said. When some of the teens broke away from the fight, the three men apparently pulled a gun and fired at the fleeing Jeep that Guevara and other teens were riding in, police said.
Witnesses told authorities that the three men passed a handgun back and forth while they chased the Jeep. A bullet hit Guevara in the chest. She died the next day.
Ruben Guerrero, 27, of Irvine was convicted of the murder in May, 1992. He was sentenced to 26 years to life in prison by an Orange County judge.
Albert Guerrero, 26, also of Irvine, remains at large, police said.
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