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Published: 19 April 2015 19 April 2015

By Roger Lanse

The evening of Friday, April 20, 2012 was starlit and calm. The night was no different from many other evenings that year in Hurley

The hands of the young man who attended the San Francisco Institute of Art after graduating from high school will never again hold an artist's brush. The young man who would curl up in fun on the lap of his father, Peter Garcia, will never again give his father joy. The young man who reassured his mother by answering, "It's okay, Ma, I'll be back," when she warned him not to go out in the dark to look for his dog, will never give his mother cause for worry again.

The Office of the Medical Investigator's autopsy report lists the cause of Roberto's death as "multiple blunt force trauma of the head and neck," although the manner of death is stated as undetermined.

The Grant County Sheriff's Department is the lead agency on the case with the Hurley Police Department assisting. Lt. Ray Tavizon, GCSD Special Investigations Unit, told the Beat that they continue to follow up on leads and that the investigation remains active. Tavizon said that up to this point they still need someone to come forward with information about the murder to be able to close the case. "We know someone out there knows what happened," Tavizon said.

Anyone with information relative to this case is urged to call the GCSD at 574-0100 or Grant County Crime Stoppers at 538-5254.