Anthony Garcia's tattoo has a man with the body of a peanut ¿ slang for a rival gang member being hit by bullets and falling back towards a liquor store. Garcia's nickname was Chopper and a mini helicopter is firing shots.
The tattoo even showed the Christmas lights that were hanging from the roof of the liquor store where 23-year-old John Juarez was shot in the 2004 murder.
The ink job even includes a street lamp and sign from across the street
The whole scene was sketched out under the chilling banner of ‘RIVERA KILLS’, a reference to the Los Angeles Latino street gang, Rivera-13.
Police revealed today how they only made the breakthrough by chance when homicide investigator Kevin Lloyd was flipping through snapshots of tattooed gang members.
Out of the blue, Garcia’s tattoo caught his attention because it reminded him of a murder case he helped probe years earlier.
The detective then helped set up a sting to trick the 25-year-old into confessing to the killing.
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