Man sentenced to 40 Years to life for Desert Hot Springs shooting death
Desert Hot Springs PD
Anthony Garza
A man who fatally shot another man for no reason in Desert Hot Springs more than four years ago was sentenced today to 40 years to life in state prison.
An Indio jury convicted Anthony Garza, 31, of murder in June for shooting Dominick Mesta, 21, four times in the face on Dec. 18, 2016. Jurors also found true a sentence-enhancing allegation of discharging a firearm causing great bodily injury.
Garza originally pleaded guilty to the shooting in 2018, and was sentenced to 25 years to life in state prison at the time.