{"id":1382702,"date":"2022-03-15T19:21:28","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T23:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1382702"},"modified":"2022-03-15T19:21:31","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T23:21:31","slug":"illegal-alien-acquitted-of-killing-kate-steinle-pleads-guilty-to-gun-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/illegal-alien-acquitted-of-killing-kate-steinle-pleads-guilty-to-gun-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Illegal Alien Acquitted of Killing Kate Steinle Pleads Guilty to Gun Charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fillegal-alien-acquitted-of-killing-kate-steinle-pleads-guilty-to-gun-charges%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1382702&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">The seven-time felon, five-time deported illegal alien acquitted of murdering 32-year-old Kate Steinle in 2015 has pleaded guilty to federal gun charges, prosecutors revealed on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Following Steinle\u2019s 2015 killing on a pier in San Francisco, California, 51-year-old illegal alien Jose Garcia Zarate was charged with her murder after being caught on surveillance footage running from the shooting.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>After his arrest,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/local\/2015\/07\/06\/murderer-says-he-chose-san-francisco-because-it-is-a-sanctuary-city\/\">Garcia Zarate admitted<\/a>\u00a0to shooting and killing Steinle, who was walking on the pier at the time with her father, saying he chose San Francisco because it was a sanctuary city that shields criminal illegal aliens from arrest and deportation by federal immigration officials.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>On November 30, 2017, Garcia Zarate was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2017\/11\/30\/five-times-deported-illegal-alien-jose-zarate-found-not-guilty-in-murder-of-kate-steinle\/\">found not guilty<\/a>\u00a0of murdering Steinle.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7749043\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2017\/12\/kate-steinle-father-testifies-2015-getty.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>A large photo of Kathryn \u2018Kate\u2019 Steinle who was killed by an illegal immigrant in San Francisco, is shown while her dad Jim Steinle testifies during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, July 21, 2015, in Washington, DC. (Mark Wilson\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Following the verdict, Garcia Zarate was hit with federal gun charges for having a firearm while in the United States illegally. In February 2020, as Breitbart News\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2020\/02\/18\/illegal-alien-acquitted-for-kate-steinles-murder-deemed-mentally-ill-unfit-to-stand-trial-for-gun-charges\/\">reported<\/a>, Garcia Zarate had initially been deemed mentally unfit to stand trial for the charges, but last month, a doctor found him fit for trial.<\/p>\n<p>Late last year, Garcia Zarate\u2019s attorneys pleaded with President Joe Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/09\/17\/attorneys-beg-joe-biden-to-free-illegal-alien-acquitted-of-killing-kate-steinle\/\">to free him<\/a> from federal custody. On Tuesday, prosecutors <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/GH5TR\">announced<\/a> that Garcia Zarate had pleaded guilty to the charges.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe charges are because I was in the country illegally and I had a firearm,\u201d Garcia Zarate said through an interpreter.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JxhnBxnder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The seven-time felon, five-time deported illegal alien acquitted of murdering 32-year-old Kate Steinle in 2015 has pleaded guilty to federal gun charges, prosecutors revealed on Tuesday. 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