TYLER — A motion by an East Texas man convicted of sexually assaulting and murdering Kayla Gomez was denied by a Smith County judge on Tuesday. According to our news partner KETK, the move would have allowed Gustavo Zavala-Garcia, who is serving a sentence of life in prison, to have copies made of the state\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s evidence against him to be given to his family. Zavala-Garcia entered a guilty plea In August of 2019 for the murder of a 10-year-old girl. In November of 2016, Kayla Gomez went missing from the Bullard First Assembly of God Church. A few days later, her body was found in a well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
TYLER — A motion by an East Texas man convicted of sexually assaulting and murdering Kayla Gomez was denied by a Smith County judge on Tuesday. According to our news partner KETK, the move would have allowed Gustavo Zavala-Garcia, who is serving a sentence of life in prison, to have copies made of the state\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s … Continue reading Motion denied for man serving life in prison for murder of Bullard girl<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":997800,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/04\/Gomez-150x150.png","fifu_image_alt":"Motion denied for man serving life in prison for murder of Bullard girl","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-997793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-29 03:49:52","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/04\/Gomez-150x150.png","fifu_image_alt":"Motion denied for man serving life in prison for murder of Bullard girl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=997793"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":998282,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997793\/revisions\/998282"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/997800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=997793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=997793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=997793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}