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Posted at: 11/17/2009 9:08 AM | WHEC.com Testimony continues in Frank Garcia double murder trial
The 911 call was played in court today but the jury was not present to hear it. On the tape, the caller says she saw a silver car pull away from the hospital parking lot after she heard gunshots. Police say it was Garcia’s car. This call appears to be the first 911 call made in the case. The call came from a nurse at Lakeside Hospital who testified she heard several gun shots. Colleen Clary said, “I'm in an office and the window is open. I saw a red car going east on West Avenue and then a silver car, a four-door sedan, heading the other way on (Route) 31." The 911 dispatcher asks, "A silver car went westbound?" Clary says, "Shortly thereafter, yes." Clary was working in the hospital that morning when she heard gunshots. She said she looked out her window and that's when she saw the cars. The prosecution believes the silver car she saw was the same car Garcia was arrested in later that day. Most of the evidence so far has been people telling the jury what they heard and saw. That's why Garcia’s lawyer from the Ontario County murder trial says this will be a tougher case to get a guilty verdict. Former Garcia lawyer David Morabito said, “The case pending here, the charges are the same or similar but the evidence isn't a strong as for instance, Ontario. The district attorney's going to have a tougher job to convict. It's that simple." Morabito says the Garcia case in Ontario had mounds of evidence. Things like fingerprints, DNA, footprints, tire prints, cigarette butts. Morabito, who knows all the elements of the case, says that doesn't exist here. Garcia is already serving a life sentence for the murders of Kimberly and Christopher Glatz in their Canandaigua home on Valentine’s Day. Police say Garcia targeted Kimberly Glatz and Mary Silliman because they lodged sexual misconduct complaints against him which caused Garcia to be fired from two nursing jobs. For more Rochester, N.Y. news go to our website www.whec.com.
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Frank Garcia is charged with the shooting deaths of Randal Norman and Mary Silliman outside Lakeside Hospital in Brockport on Valentine’s Day.