Paul Joseph Garcia Hits Pedestrian and Drives to Bar with Corpse Still in The Vehicle

The police released a report on Tuesday, February 18 regarding an accident that occurred late on Saturday. The accident occurred in Austin on the south side of the city.

Witness reports indicated that 24-year-old Paul Joseph Garcia was driving down the road in a white 2014 Ford Focus extremely fast when he hit a pedestrian in the road. At the time of the accident, Garcia did not have his headlights on.

The body of the pedestrian that was hit by Garcia went through the windshield of Garcia’s car and landed in the front passenger seat. The released affidavit said that the pedestrian was extremely mangled. They suffered traumatic head injuries and had severed body parts that were found in the roadway and inside the car.

The police have not released the name of the pedestrian at this time.

After the accident, the report states that Garcia drove further south on Menchaca Road and stopped outside of the South Austin Beer Garden. He got out of his car and walked inside the beer garden as if nothing had happened, based on eyewitness accounts.

The establishment refused to serve Garcia alcohol and the police were called to the scene around 10:30 p.m.

When arrested, Garcia had blood evidence on him that matched the victim and the blood inside of his car. The report stated that he drove for at least a half of a mile with the corpse in his front passenger seat.

Garcia was arrested and charged with intoxication manslaughter and causing an accident involving injury. The intoxication manslaughter charge is a second-degree felony that can carry an imprisonment term of two to 20 years.

As of Tuesday’s, report, he was still being held at the Travis County Correctional Complex with a bail amount totally $110,000.