Jose Inez Garcia Zarate Gets Time Served In 2015 Kate Steinle Shooting Death

Pleasanton CA

07 June, 2022

11:56 AM

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CBS San Francisco June 7, 2022 A California federal judge on Monday sentenced Jose Inez Garcia Zarate -- the Mexican man acquitted of murder in the 2015 shooting death of a woman on a San Francisco pier -- to the seven years he's already spent in jail. The sentencing brought the case that ignited a national firestorm over immigration, crime and sanctuary cities to a legal close. Garcia Zarate was in the U.S. illegally when Kate Steinle, 32, was fatally shot along a crowded Pier 14 where she was walking with her father and a family friend. He faces deportation and U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria told him in court to never return to the U.S. CBS Local Digital Media personalizes the global reach of CBS-owned and operated television and radio stations with a local perspective.