A 55-year-old Central Texas convenience store clerk who never regained consciousness after he was attacked and abducted died Friday after he was removed from life support.
COLLEGE STATION (March 20, 2015) College Station store clerk Kevin Garcia, 55, who suffered head trauma when he was attacked and abducted early Tuesday morning, died Friday after he was removed from life support at John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth, police said.
Garcia was unconscious when he was found Tuesday afternoon and had been in a coma since then.
He was pronounced dead just after 1:30 p.m. Friday police said.
Family members decided Thursday to remove Garcia from life support as soon as coordinators with the Life Gift organization were sure they were able to donate Garcia's organs.
His kidneys were removed for transplantation, a hospital spokesman said Friday.
He was found after a suspect in the abduction, whom police identified as Nathaniel Tillery, 35, was taken into custody early Tuesday afternoon in the Fort Worth area.
Tillery was charged with aggravated kidnapping.
His bond was set at $520,000 and he remains in the Brazos County Jail.
Garcia was attacked and thrown into the bed of his 1999 dark gray extended cab Ford Ranger pickup truck early Tuesday at the Exxon gas station where he has worked for 15 years at the corner of State Highway 6 and University Drive in College Station, police said.
A customer who found the station empty early Tuesday called police.