Lab Testing Continues in the Zavala-Garcia Murder Case
Posted/updated on: July 13, 2018 at 2:38 pm
TYLER – The accused killer of a Smith County girl had a pretrial hearing in a Tyler courtroom Thursday. Gustavo , who is charged with capital murder, listened as a DPS evidence analyst testified it would take another 30 days to test trace evidence, and another 60 days for the DNA testing. Then it will take another 30 days to write the report on the test results. His next pretrial hearing is scheduled on August 16th. At that time we could learn about a trial date. Zavala-Garcia is accused of kidnapping 10 year old Kayla Gomez from a Bullard church in November, 2016. Her body was found days later in a well on the man’s property.
