After almost 14 excruciating years, the family of 16-year-old Sebastian Ochsenius, who was shot to death in his Gainesville home in 2010, has some answers.
Sebastian’s siblings, Boris Ochsenius Jr. and Maria Jose Ochsenius, were among those in attendance at a press conference Monday afternoon where State Attorney Brian Kramer and Alachua County Sheriff Emery Gainey announced that Timothy Eugene Thomas had been indicted on a charge of first-degree murder.
“I’m very thankful, personally, for the efforts of the investigators who worked on this case, for our sheriff, Emery Gainey, for the work that the sheriff’s department has done on this, but also recognize that this family has had to endure this for 13 and a half years to get to the point of having some better understanding of what occurred here, and why it occurred here,” Kramer said.
Thomas, 33, already was serving a life sentence in state prison for the attempted murder of a Monroe County Sheriff’s Office deputy when he was identified as a suspect in Sebastian’s murder.