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On Thursday, Jose Ines Garcia Zarate was acquitted of murder and murder charges, and discovered not guilty of attack with a gun, in the July 2015 death of Kate Steinle.

Steinle was shot while strolling with her daddy on San Francisco’s Pier 14, and passed away in the health center 2 hours later on. Garcia Zarate acknowledged he had actually fired his weapon, however stated it was a mishap. Proof provided throughout the five-week trial revealed the bullet had actually ricocheted prior to striking Steinle.

According to the New York Times, Garcia Zarate, a 45-year-old undocumented Mexican immigrant, was, nevertheless, condemned of being a felon in belongings of a gun and might be sentenced anywhere from 16 months to 3 years in jail. Garcia Zarate has actually been deported 5 times and invested more than 2 years in county prison awaiting his trial.

Prior to his election, President Donald Trump s project utilized the killing of then-32-year-old Steinle as a require migration reform. When undocumented immigrants aren’t deported and kept out of the United States, Steinle’s death served as a Trump project anecdote of exactly what takes place to American residents.

On Thursday night and into Friday early morning, Trump revealed his discontentment with the decision in the Steinle case, calling it “disgraceful” on Twitter , and composing, “No marvel individuals of our Country are so upset with Illegal Immigration.”

Trump had actually formerly tweeted about Steinle's death 7 times, on 2 events to slam President Barack Obama and then-presidential prospect Marco Rubio for their seeming inactiveness.