{"id":56410,"date":"2014-11-13T09:30:51","date_gmt":"2014-11-13T14:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=56410"},"modified":"2014-11-13T09:58:14","modified_gmt":"2014-11-13T14:58:14","slug":"francisco-garcia-wasnt-an-afghanistan-vet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=56410","title":{"rendered":"Francisco Garcia wasn’t an Afghanistan vet"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the weekend, Francisco Garcia was killed in Los Angeles. The LAPD announced that he had just returned from Afghanistan, they say that information came from his family. Well, now we read that he had never been deployed from CBS<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Ft. Drum officials in New York confirmed Garcia enlisted in June 2012 and was discharged from the Army in July of this year.<\/p>\n

During his enlistment, Garcia, who held the title of PV1, went through six months of basic training before being stationed Ft. Drum, according to Ft. Drum spokesperson Julie Halpin.<\/p>\n

It was also later determined Garcia was not celebrating his homecoming as originally reported by the LAPD.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, that doesn’t make it any less tragic that a 22-year-old died needlessly in the streets of his hometown, it may have been a story that he told his family, or it could have been a story that his family told for more sympathy, or it could have been that the police misunderstood. <\/p>\n

Police suspect the 21-year-old was caught in a feud between two rival tagging groups and may have been involved.<\/p>\n

Vincent Estrada, 18, was arrested Tuesday in Garcia\u2019s murder.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n