A Lompoc man has been sentenced in Santa Barbara County Superior Court to life in prison without the possibility of parole after being found guilty of setting his father on fire causing severe burns that led to the man’s death.
Joseph Ashley Garcia, 44, was arrested after the 2022 attack that critically injured his father, Lompoc resident Joseph Michael Garcia, 68, who died days later in a hospital.
After hearing from the victim’s family Wednesday, one day before the attack’s four-year anniversary, Judge Stephen Dunkle referred to the horrific circumstances that led to the death of the man known as Mike…