5:30 PM PST — Los Angeles County District Lawyer Nathan J. Hochman simply introduced that Mario Edgardo Garcia-Aquino faces a attainable most sentence of demise or life in jail with out the potential of parole.

He was additionally charged in a separate case with one felony depend of assault with the intent to commit a sexual offense. Garcia-Aquino is accused of sexually assaulting a 16-year-old boy in February 2024. If convicted as charged, he faces a attainable most sentence of six years in state jail on that case.

A soccer coach who a Los Angeles household says was the final one who had contact with their lifeless son is being charged with the boy’s homicide … TMZ has realized.

The lacking 13-year-old boy Oscar Omar Hernandez was discovered lifeless in a ditch final week in Oxnard and his household says he was final seen along with his soccer coach, 43-year-old Mario Edgardo Garcia Aquino.

Regulation enforcement sources inform TMZ … Aquino is being charged with Oscar’s homicide.

As we reported … Aquino was named an individual of curiosity within the boy’s disappearance — and he was arrested final week by LAPD detectives on a warrant from an unrelated sexual assault case that was beforehand investigated by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Division.

Los Angeles County District Lawyer Nathan J. Hochman, LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell and Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna are holding a press convention later at this time to announce the homicide cost in opposition to Aquino.