Brazos County DA Comments About Plea Agreement In 2016 College Station Murder

Photo of the entrance to the Brazos County courthouse, April 13 2016.
Photo of the entrance to the Brazos County courthouse, April 13 2016.

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A plea agreement was reached this week in a College Station murder that took place last year.

Victor Garcia-Loyo was sentenced to 50 years in prison after admitting to shooting his former girlfriend in her apartment.

District Attorney Jarvis Parsons says the murder was after the victim, Texas A&M senior Maricarmen Quiroz Octaviano, told Loyo she wanted to date other people.

Parsons says there was no evidence Loyo had a history of domestic violence, the victim’s family was in agreement with the plea and sentence, and that Loyo will be handed over to immigration officials after serving the murder sentence.

Click below for comments from Jarvis Parsons, visiting with WTAW’s Bill Oliver.

 

News release from the Brazos County district attorney’s office:

Victor Garcia-Loyo was sentenced today by Judge Travis Bryan, III to 50 years in prison for the murder of Maricarmen Quiroz Octaviano on September 16, 2016.

Garcia-Loyo pled guilty to the offense on Monday and the case was reset for sentencing to allow Maricarmern’s family to be present.

Maricarmen, a senior genetics major at Texas A&M University, and the Defendant had dated on and off for several years.

Maricarmen’s family was in agreement with the plea.

College Station Police responded to Maricarmen’s apartment on September 17, 2016, on a welfare concern call after a caller reported concern about being unable to get into contact with Maricarmen and reports from the caller that he feared that Maricarmen’s boyfriend, the defendant had shot her.

When they arrived on scene, they discovered Maricarmen had been shot multiple times in the head.

Police later determined that Maricarmen and the defendant had been having problems in their relationship in the months leading up to the murder.

When contacted by College Station Police, the defendant lied about his whereabouts and refused to speak with the police.

College Station Police then obtained a ping on the defendant’s phone and discovered that his phone was in Fort Worth, Texas.

When Fort Worth Police and College Station Police made contact with Defendant, he confessed to the murder of Maricarmen after an argument about their relationship.

Jarvis Parsons, Brazos County District Attorney, said this about the plea: “This defendant took a talented young woman away from her family and extinguished an incredibly bright future. His jealousy and desire to control Maricarmen is an all too common theme in family and dating violence cases. With the help of Maricarmen’s family and the excellent work of CSPD, we made
sure this defendant will not be able to harm another loved one.”

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