FAIRFIELD TWP., Ohio — An 18-year-old man has been indicted for the 2018 murder of 16-year-old Sydney Garcia-Tovar.
According to court documents, 18-year-old Jordan A. Spain was indicted by a grand jury on one count of murder and two counts of felonious assault. He was arrested in September 2022 on those charges. Police said Spain was 14-years-old at the time of the shooting.
Spain is scheduled for an arraignment on April 11, court documents show.
In April 2021, 22-year-old Markeylnd Townsend was also charged with murder and felonious assault for his involvementin Garcia-Tovar's death.
Fairfield Township police said Garcia-Tovar was in the wrong place at the wrong time on July 23, 2018, when bullets began flying. Fairfield Township police sergeant Brandon McCroskey said Garcia-Tovar was with a group of people outside the Tyler's Creek apartments on Wildbranch Road that day.
As she was leaving, McCroskey said bullets hit Garcia-Tovar's car, striking her in the back of the head and hitting a man in her passenger seat; the man survived, but Garcia-Tovar died in the hospital the next day.
“Sydney did not deserve to die from being there and being involved in that situation,” McCroskey said after Garcia-Tovar's murder. “She was a victim. It is a tragedy all the way around.”
Garcia-Tovar’s family said she was an ROTC cadet at Hamilton High School who had hopes of one day becoming a Marine.
