Posted at: 11/08/2009 9:31 AM | WHEC.com
Updated at: 11/09/2009 11:06 AM
By: Linzi Sheldon

Jury selection in Garcia trial underway

He was convicted of murdering a husband and wife in Canandaigua.

Today, Frank Garcia goes back on trial - this time, for murdering two people in Brockport.

Jury selection began at around 11 a.m. The courtoom is packed with potential jurors. Garcia was brought in wearing a blue shirt and tie.

"They deserve some justice even though he's already in prison for life now," Brockport resident Laurie LoMonaco said.

It was a murder spree that crossed two counties and left four people dead on Valentine's Day.

Garcia is already serving a life sentence without parole for the execution-style murders of Kimberly and Christopher Glatz.

The photos and crosses by Lakeside Hospital remind everyone who drives by what happened there.

"It definitely affected the community, without a doubt," LoMonaco said.

Like many others, LoMonaco will never forget that morning. She was taking her dog out for a walk when she heard the gunshots.

"I knew instantly that they were gunshots," she said. "I don't know how I knew that. And I happened to look at my cell phone and it said 5:08 a.m. It was scary. It was a very scary morning."

By that night, Frank Garcia had been charged with murder.

Police say he got into an argument with Mary Silliman, a former co-worker, and shot and killed her in Lakeside Hospital's parking lot.

Her family spoke with us in February.

"My daughter's been robbed from me," her mother Theresa Silliman said on February 16th. "I can't bring her back."

"I want to thank the people who tried to help my daughter," her father Harry Silliman said. "I feel for their grief, just as well as they feel for mine."

Randal Norman was the Good Samaritan who tried to help her. He was also shot and killed.

"Obviously he stopped to help that woman," Rob Norman said on February 15th. "I can't imagine him not stopping to help."

"It's unfortunate that doing the right thing ends in such tragedy," he said.

"I think it made people think about what they would do, hearing that someone tried to help and intervene and they were killed," LoMonaco said.

As Garcia prepares for his trial in Monroe County, LoMonaco says a guilty verdict would bring closure to the community.

"I think that especially the families directly involved here deserve some sort of justice," she said.

Audra Dillon was Randal Norman's passenger on the morning of the murders. She was shot but escaped by driving away and going straight to police.

Dillon is expected to be one of the first witnesses when testimony begins this week.

Judge Frank Geraci has ruled that TV cameras will be allowed in the courtroom for this trial, as they were in Ontario County.

News 10 NBC will be rolling on opening statements and closing arguments as well as the verdict.

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