A Chicago man has been sentenced to 40 years in prison after pleading guilty to two Northwest Side murders he committed within days of each other in December 2021, cases that were solved after police found the murder weapon in a carjacked vehicle he was driving.
Hader Garcia, 22, pleaded guilty to both killings in exchange for the sentence imposed by Judge Peggy Chiampas, according to court records. Under Illinois law, he must serve 100% of his sentence.
The case against Garcia began to unravel on January 7, 2022, when police arrested him while he was driving a recently carjacked SUV. Since the victim could not identify him as one of the people who took the vehicle, prosecutors charged Garcia with possessing a stolen motor vehicle…