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Vincent Estrada, 18, of Sylmar, was arrested and booked on a
charge of murder, the Los Angeles Police Department said in a
statement.
Francisco Garcia, 21, was walking along a street with friends
early on Sunday morning during a homecoming party thrown for him
by his girlfriend when a man got out of a car, smashed a beer
bottle on the ground and began screaming at Garcia, police said.
The man returned to one of the vehicles, got a handgun and shot
Garcia, police said. The suspect fled and Garcia was declared
dead at the scene.
"The ironies are obvious," LAPD Lieutenant Paul Vernon said in a
statement on Sunday. "To survive as a soldier in an overseas
conflict, only to be killed in your old neighborhood upon your
return."
Estrada was being held on $1 million bail on Tuesday night,
police said.
(Reporting by Curtis Skinner in San Francisco; Editing by
Clarence Fernandez)
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