A youth soccer coach has been charged with first-degree murder in connection with the death of a 13-year-old boy whose body was found in Oxnard.
Los Angeles prosecutors filed charges against the man in connection with the death of Oscar Omar Hernandez. The San Fernando Valley boy vanished after visiting the youth soccer coach in the Antelope Valley.
His family reported him missing on March 30. The boy’s body was found off of Harbor Boulevard in Oxnard last Wednesday.
Mario Edgardo Garcia Aquino was arrested last week by LAPD detectives investigating the teen's disappearance. But he was arrested for an unrelated assault charge from a case last year.
Monday, prosecutors charged the 43-year-old man with the boy's murder.
They think the murder happened in the Antelope Valley, and Hernandez’s body was then dropped in Oxnard.
LA County Sheriff Robert Luna says Aquino had befriended the boy’s family, which allowed their juvenile son to stay with him at his home in Palmdale.
Detectives say they are looking for additional victims.
