Luis Garcia was just 16 years old when he was shot eight times, sitting in his car outside East High School and heading out to a friend’s birthday party. He never woke up. Two weeks later, the beloved star soccer player was gone.

Garcia was senselessly murdered on Feb. 13, 2023. Nearly two and a half years later, a judge has tossed the family’s wrongful death lawsuit against Denver Public Schools — and the Denver DA still hasn’t filed charges, even though there’s long been a definitive suspect.

“Getting into his car about to drive away, (Garcia) was gunned down — murdered, in cold blood, shot in the face,” attorney Matthew Barringer, representing the Garcia family, told me Tuesday on KOA radio.

The lawsuit alleged DPS and the school board “breached their duty” under the Claire Davis Sch

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