Jacob Garcia, a 36-year-old man from Abilene, Texas, was shot and killed on May 4, 2019 while trying to break up an altercation at a house party in the 1700 block of North 10th Street. Witnesses reported that an exchange of blows involved Zachary Noel Morelos, 30, and another person; Garcia and Anthony Valles tried to intervene and defuse the situation. Before leaving, Morelos reportedly produced a gun and shot Garcia in the chest.

After the shooting, Morelos and Valles fled in Valles’s vehicle and were stopped later by state troopers in the Eastland area. Morelos was arrested and charged with murder; a Taylor County grand jury indicted him in July 2019 and he was held on a $1 million bond. Garcia is remembered by family and friends as kind and respectful and is survived by his wife Monica Del Toro, son Jacob Adam Garcia, and daughters Destiny Calvillo, D'Lovely Garcia, and Deziree Garcia.

If anyone at the party or in the neighborhood has information that wasn’t shared with investigators, can you come forward to help fill in what happened that night?