A previously deported illegal alien has pleaded guilty to murdering 25-year-old Ruby Garcia execution-style in March in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Brandon Ortiz-Vite, a 25-year-old illegal alien from Mexico, pleaded guilty on Monday to murdering Ruby Garcia and then dumping her body alongside U.S. Highway 131 on March 22. Ortiz-Vite will be sentenced on Oct. 31.
According to prosecutors, Ortiz-Vite and Garcia were in a relationship at the time of her murder. While in Garcia’s car along U.S. Highway 131, Ortiz-Vite made the young woman pull over before ultimately shooting her four times — twice in the head, once in her arm, and once in her hand, prosecutors said.
Ruby Garcia (Photo via Facebook)
After Garcia’s body was discovered on the side of the highway, Ortiz-Vite called the police on March 24 to turn himself in and admit to the murder.
“I am calling because I want to turn myself in [for] a murder I committed two nights ago,” Ortiz-Vite told dispatchers, according to prosecutors. “I know what I did was wrong and I will do the time. I just don’t want to die inside.”
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials confirmed that Ortiz-Vite is an illegal alien who had been deported to Mexico from the United States in 2020.
Ortiz-Vite has also been arraigned on charges dating back to 2020 and had a bench warrant issued that year after he failed to appear in court on charges of drunk driving and driving with a suspended license. He had other run-ins with the law in 2017 and 2018.
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