Enrique Garcia-Mendoza, a 25-year-old Hispanic man, was killed on December 25, 2015, in Dallas, Texas. He was sitting in the back of a vehicle parked in front of Omar’s Wheels and Tires, a Muslim-owned business, when an assailant opened fire.

Anthony Paz Torres, 30, approached the business after being told the person he was looking for was not there and began shooting. Torres was later found at Baylor Hospital with gunshot wounds and was arrested. Prosecutors charged him in connection with the attack as a hate crime motivated by anti-Muslim bias.

Torres admitted he had made Islamophobic comments at the tire shop a few days earlier and returned on Christmas Eve with a firearm. He pleaded guilty to federal hate crime counts that include the murder of Enrique Garcia-Mendoza and the attempted murder of four others, and was sentenced to 37 years in prison.