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He took in the shape of the parking lot.
He looked at the doors on the liquor store to kind of look at the size and the shape.
He also saw the nearby street sign that John had been standing near when he was shot and killed.
And so finally, after looking all around and feeling like he had seen all that he needed to see, Detective Lloyd felt more sure than ever that his theory about Anthony Garcia had to be correct.
And so he drove his car back to the police station, he walked right into his boss's office, and he would tell him that they have been wrong about Anthony Garcia this whole time.
He is not some small-time gang member, he is a big player, and he's not even trying to hide it.
The photo that Lloyd saw of Anthony Garcia that really stood out to him when he was going through all that paperwork was the photo of Anthony when he was being booked into jail.
And in this photo, Anthony is shirtless and Anthony has this huge chest tattoo that you can clearly see in this photo.
The tattoo shows a liquor store, and to the left of the liquor store is this military-style helicopter that's coming in and firing its gun towards the ground.
And on the ground, in the line of fire from this helicopter, is what looks like this man who's got the body of a peanut.
And so he's being killed by this helicopter.
all the other people who saw this photo or who saw anthony garcia in person chalked up his tattoo to just some weird depiction of a helicopter killing a peanut guy and they didn't think too much of it but detective lloyd had actually been to the crime scene in 04 when john juarez had been murdered and so he had seen the layout of the crime scene and then he's looking at this photo of anthony garcia's chest tattoo and he realizes it is the same depiction of the crime scene
Anthony Garcia, his nickname was Chopper, which is often a slang term for a helicopter, and John Juarez, who was murdered in 2004, he was a member of a gang called Pico Nuevo, and Anthony Garcia and the gang he was involved in, which was not Pico Nuevo, they used to make fun of people like John for being affiliated with that gang by calling them Peanuts.
meaning the helicopter in the tattoo represented Anthony Garcia and the peanut guy was John Juarez.
So this tattoo is literally like a confession that Anthony Garcia was the guy who shot and killed John Juarez.
there were other details in this tattoo as well that made it even more clear that this really was like a confession i mean just the angle of the peanut guy's body so john juarez's body in the tattoo was the same angle as he was found in real life and also the decorations on the liquor store in the tattoo lined up with the decorations that were on mr ed's liquor store when john juarez was murdered in 04. so really anthony garcia sealed his fate by tattooing that to his chest
Ultimately, Anthony's tattoo would be used to convict him of John Juarez's murder, and Anthony would be sentenced to 65 years to life in prison.
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