Pre Trial Hearing for Zavala-Garcia

TYLER – There was a brief pretrial hearing in Tyler Thursday for a capital murder suspect. Gustavo Zavala-Garcia, 26, appeared in state district court. Legal proceedings are moving toward his trial, which is set for July 15th. They are still waiting for some DNA results in the case. They are expected to be in sometime next month. His next pretrial hearing is scheduled for April 4th, at which time his attorney will be filing several motions. One is to seek a change of venue in the case. Zavala-Garcia is accused of kidnapping 10 year old Kayla Gomez from a Bullard church in November of 2017. Her body was found days later in a well on the man’s property. According to an arrest affidavit, a witness said they saw the man with Kayla shortly before she disappeared.