BY ANDY SEVILLA
Ulises Garcia was kind, loving, playful, funny and full of life. His older sister, Jessica, holds on to those memories of the 20-yearold who tragically lost his life after sustaining stab wounds at a large party in Kyle. “He was the kind that was used to getting babied by all of us, because he was the youngest and that’s just the way we were with him,” Jessica said of her, her parents and two older sisters. “He was my parents’ only son. So my mom and my dad, they don’t know what to do. We don’t know how to heal from this because there was only one of him. Authorities said Monday that Garcia died after being stabbed at a party on the 100 block of Sunrise Drive in east Kyle on March 23. He died shortly after being transported and admitted at Seton Medical Center due to his stab wounds, the Hays County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement Monday. Two other stabbing victims’ identities have not been released, because of the ongoing investigation, the sheriff’s office said. Their condition also was not reported. The sheriff’s office is investigating the case as an aggravated assault and a homicide. Authorities have not released the name of any suspect, and declined to say whether someone has been taken into custody. “I don’t know why they would do that to (Ulises),” Jessica said. “He wasn’t the kind of person to pick fights. He wasn’t the kind of person to carry guns or knives with him … So I don’t understand why they would take it to that point and hurt him like that.” Ulises previously had two close calls, his sister said. When he was five years old, he was close to dying due to kidney issues, the organs were retaining a lot of “bad fluids,” Jessica said. Had his parents not taken him to the hospital when they did, she said doctor’s warned he may not have made it. “He almost passed away when he was five years old, so my mother grew very attached to him,” she said. “Kind of made him her favorite, and he was all of our favorite.” And last year as he was walking home from a gas station, a car bumped him and “really hurt him,” almost running him over, she said, but Ulises was taken to the hospital and came out okay. “So this time around, (mom) was probably thinking the same, that he would make it out okay. And the fact that she actually lost him was horrible,” Jessica said. “When I ever sit and think about it, it’s like they tell me for the first time. Over and over and over and over again. So we don’t know how we’re going to heal.” Initially, Jessica said it did seem like Ulises was going to be okay. A Seton hospital representative told Ulises’ family that he had minor wounds and had been transferred to Brackenridge University Medical Center in Austin, she said. But shortly thereafter she learned the truth. Jessica said she and her sisters were asked to stay in Kyle to speak with detectives on the case. She said the sisters tried to rush the conversation as they wanted to make their way to Brackenridge and be with their brother “by the time he woke up, so he wouldn’t be alone. That was our plan.”
