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.
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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