HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) — A man charged with the murder of a repairman in July has now been charged in connection with a second murder, according to Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez.<\/p>\n
On Thursday, 32-year-old Jaime Garcia was charged with murder in the shooting death of 42-year-old Francisco Navarro on May 26, the sheriff’s office said.<\/p>\n
Deputies said they were called to the 1300 block of Patch in east Harris County, where they found Navarro dead with a gunshot wound inside a vehicle.<\/p>\n
Navarro’s wife said Navarro and Garcia had been friends for over a decade.<\/p>\n
At the time he was charged with the May murder, Garcia was already in jail for the shooting death of the repairman on July 2.<\/p>\n
Investigators say 31-year-old Christopher Walsh had been called to a home on Crathie Drive in a gated Atascocita neighborhood to repair a leak.<\/p>\n
Garcia, whose parents own the home, was set to meet Walsh that afternoon.<\/p>\n
According to a search warrant, a neighbor’s surveillance camera picked up two gunshots five minutes after Walsh entered the home. Garcia can be seen leaving in a black Cadillac a minute later.<\/p>\n
When Walsh didn’t pick up his two sons, his sister and boss tracked him down to the house on Crathie using his work van’s GPS tracking.<\/p>\n
His sister later flagged down deputies working nearby, who found Walsh dead in an upstairs bathroom.<\/p>\n
Authorities said the motive for the murder is still unknown.<\/p>\n
At the time, Garcia was out on bond in three pending criminal cases, including the non-fatal shooting of an acquaintance outside a southeast Houston tire shop in November.<\/p>\n
Records show he has a criminal record dating back to 2012, when he was 19, and he was sentenced to five years in prison on a drug charge in 2016.<\/p>\n