The man convicted of murdering influential singer Mia Zapata of Seattle’s The Gits on July 7, 1993 has died.Jesus Mezquia, age 66, died in a hospital in Pierce County, Washington on January 21 of this year, but his death was only recently confirmed by the Washington state Department of Corrections.
No cause of death was revealed.Mezquia escaped with his crime for a decade before DNA evidence obtained in a 2003 arrest in Miami tied him to the slaying.
Mezquia had been serving a 36-year sentence for Zapata’s death, but the originally conviction was overturned in August 2005 before the Washington state Court of Appeal reinstated it in January 2009.Zapata and The Gits were just emerged in the Seattle alternative rock/grunge music scene at the
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