A disturbing video has been released showing the moment a disturbed Las Vegas high school student – guilty of strangling and sexually assaulting his teacher – lay in wait before carrying out his brutal attack.
Jonathan Garzia-Martinez, 17, is currently serving a minimum of 16 to 40 years in prison after being found guilty in June of the felonious assault of a former El Dorado High School teacher in April 2022.
Nearly two years after the attack, disturbing footage obtained by 8 News Now shows the life-changing events of the day.
Surveillance footage inside the high school showed Martinez-Garcia, 16, wandering the halls at 1:33 p.m. on April 7, 2022.
He was seen trying to open the classroom door near the end of the hall but failed and started walking away.
Suddenly, her teacher — identified only as Sade — poked her head out of the room, and Martinez-Garcia quickly turned and approached the classroom.
Jonathan Garzia-Martinez is seen walking down the halls of his high school on April 8, 2022. 8 News Now Las Vegas After trying to open the locked door to his teacher’s classroom, he turned around. 8 News Now Las Vegas
The footage then cuts to the unhinged teenager struggling with his teacher before he violently drags him back into the classroom.
The video jumps to 3:05 p.m., nearly an hour and a half after the teenager launched his attack, walking out of the classroom with his head down.
The footage then switched to the Bodycam of the Clark County School District Police who hunted down Garcia-Martinez later that day after reports of the attack came in.
“Possibly spotted the suspect, he saw the suspect right outside his residence right now,” the officer, who eventually arrested Garcia-Martinez, heard over the radio.
After seeing his teacher throw his head out of the classroom door, the teenager turned, attacked him, and dragged him into the classroom. 8 News Now Las Vegas
The teenager was sitting in a colored vehicle when the arresting officer approached.
“Hey, driver turn off the car. Turn off the car. Jonathan stepped out of the car,” the CCSDPD officer ordered, adding, “You know why we’re here?”
Now changed into his high school ROTC uniform, Gacia-Martinez got out of the car and calmly said, “No” before the video ended.
During his sentencing in June 2023, the severity of his atrocity was revealed after his teacher gave a harrowing statement while Gacia-Martinez was seen grinning during the hearing.
Almost an hour and a half later, Martinez-Garcia was seen leaving the classroom with his head down after attacking his teacher. 8 News Now Las Vegas The teenager had changed out of his high school ROTC uniform when police found him later that day. 8 News Now Las Vegas
“Since it happened, there hasn’t been a single night that I haven’t dreamed about the attack,” Sade shared.
“I would wake up in a new place and position each time knowing that he would just drag my limp, lifeless body to another part of the classroom to do whatever he chose to do with my body, while I lay still self discovery. .”
“He has beaten my body so badly that I can’t fight anymore,” he said.
Sade told the police that he came over and asked why he attacked her, with his horrifying response being that he “didn’t like the teacher,” so he was “getting revenge.”
The severity of Martinez-Garcia’s despicable actions was revealed by Sade in a poignant statement sentencing the teenager. 8 News Now
The teenager then choked her unconscious, and when she woke up, her pants and underwear had been pulled down while he splashed liquid on her.
Investigators revealed that Sade said he was going to “burn something” before dropping a heavy bookshelf on top of him and sitting on top of him while he tried to slash his wrists.
“I was squeezed to death,” he explained.
“Sade remembers him saying, ‘Why don’t you just die?'” Clark County Chief Deputy District Attorney William Rowles shared with the court during sentencing.
A photograph shows slash marks on the teacher’s wrist following the attack. 8 News Now Las Vegas
Garcia previously pleaded guilty to attempted murder, battery with a deadly weapon resulting in great bodily injury, and attempted sexual assault.
The teenager claimed he “passed out” during the attack but later told police he raped his teacher and remembered trying to strangle her.
“I regret what I have done,” Gacia-Martinez told the court in June.
“I also regret the things I should have done, but didn’t do.”
Jonathan Martinez-Garcia was sentenced to 40 years for the violent attack. 8 News Now Las Vegas
Although he apologized, his lawyers argued that the asthma drug he was taking called Singulair, also known as Montelukast, caused severe mood swings and delusions and was the focus of several lawsuits over the severe mental health problems experienced by users.
“He has no history of anything other than being the perfect loving child,” his attorney, public defender Tyler Gaston, argued to the court.
Disagreeing with Gaston, Judge Kathleen Delaney didn’t buy it and harshly sentenced the teenager to 40 years in prison.
“It’s the most brutal kind of crime there is,” he said.
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