A Virginia jury found Jalen Garces guilty of killing a man who obstructed his car while he was rushing to work. The 30-year-old was convicted in 2023 of carrying out the murder with a handgun.
Ali Karim Muhammad was running late for work when he was shot dead. The event took place close to Muhammad’s Norfolk home at around ten o’clock at night. The prosecutor disclosed that his automobile was blocked while he was ready to leave for work.
He inquired as to who owned the vehicle and whether it could be moved. When Garces came out of his house, he was talking to his father on the phone. He pulled out his gun and refused to move the car. According to his father, Muhammad responded, “Get that gun out of my face.”
Jalen Garces, 28, is on trial for the murder of Ali Muhammad, who was shot and killed more than two years ago in Norfolk’s Ocean View area. The trial began Monday.
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Just prior to hearing the gunshot, he heard it on the conversation. He was dead when the paramedics attempted to resuscitate him, and his autopsy showed that a gunshot wound to the torso was the cause of death.
Garces, meanwhile, fled in his Mustang to escape capture. The Virginia Beach cops caught him on the street cams. He, too, was intoxicated at the moment.
The detectives had a conversation with the woman the accused was scheduled to meet. He was panicking over the phone, thinking about his crime, she said, and they had never met. After a 3-day trial, the jurors returned a guilty verdict while expressing their sorrow for the parents’ untimely death.
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Mr. Garces had no justification for killing Ali and removing him from his family, according to Commonwealth’s Attorney Ramin Fatehi. As with every homicide in Norfolk, I was present at the scene of this one, and I am positive that the information from the Flock camera system was the difference between an unsolved murder and an arrest and conviction.
In an interview, the deceased’s father, Bilal Muhammad, stated that he and his spouse are pleased with the decision.
The day is lovely. Ali, our son, is grinning. “I’m really happy with my wife,” he remarked.
On November 7, the defendants will get their sentencing.
