but, because san francisco is a sanctuary city, they disregard it and released him. he was released on april 15th of 2015. kate steinle was killed on july 1st of 2015. he claims the gun went off accidentally and he found it on the pier. here s a flashback of jim steinle talked about kate s killer in 2015. take a listen. her faith was strong. there is no room in our hearts for a thought of that person. the press would come and they arrested the guy. they found the gun. good. we will let justice take its course. hopefully a good course and we moved on past that and now it s all about kate and maybe saving other lives. jedediah: let s just remind everyone of the original charges against garcia zarate, involuntary
july 1st of 2015 and brought for the ricochet of the bullet, kate steinle would be alive. and so the jury clearly poring over a lot of evidence here to reach this verdict.f it will be roundly attacked, tucker, as we know. matt gonzalez says he doesn t care. tucker: claudia, you have been covering this. i just want to make sure we have our facts right before we move into the analysis part of the program. this guy has seven felony convictions, he was a homeless, undocumented immigrants, as you say, san francisco. he fired the gun three times, a stolen gun, it went up three times. on his initial explanation is he was shooting sea lions and then changed his explanation to say it went off accidentally three times. is that all right? no, tucker. the gun was fired once. he gave conflicting statements defense againthe poked holes in his muddled confession to police because
it was recovered. it was later learned the weapon was stolen from the car of an agent for the bureau of land management. zarate deported from the u.s. 5 times and had 7 felony convictions. at the time of the shooting garcia zarate was on probation from a drug realization in texas. violation in texas. days before he was in the san francisco jail. he was a suspect being held on drug charges. immigrations and custom enforcement or ice asked the local sheriff to hold him until they could come down and pick him up and deport him. because of san francisco s sanctuary cities policy, zarate was set free. kate steinle was shot on july 1st of 2015.