REMEMBER Yeykenia
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Yeykenia Garcia-Broche
28 YEARS OLD ·
Naples,
Florida
Yeykenia Garcia-Broche was 28 and was attending an evening Adult English class at Lely High School when she was killed in December 2019. She is also included among people remembered in the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence’s Remember My Name memorial materials.
Available public sources reviewed for this profile provide limited biographical detail about Yeykenia’s life. They document that she was attending an Adult English class at Lely High School at the time of her death. Additional reliable remembrance information will be added when available.
THE RECORD
Yeykenia Garcia-Broche, 28, died on December 19, 2019 in Naples, Collier County, Florida. The Violet Thread research record classifies the case as IPV Homicide. The recorded relationship to the perpetrator is Ex-boyfriend. The recorded method/weapon is Firearm.
RELATIONSHIP CONTEXT
Ex-boyfriend
Available research records identify the relationship to the perpetrator as Ex-boyfriend.
PATTERNS DOCUMENTED IN AVAILABLE RECORDS
These indicators reflect what could be established from available sources. Absence from this list does not establish that a behavior did not occur.
LEGAL / SYSTEM RESPONSE
Jose Alfredo Avila Pena was arrested and prosecuted for Yeykenia’s killing. He pleaded no contest to second-degree murder with a firearm and, on February 28, 2020, was adjudicated guilty and sentenced to life in prison.
SOURCES
INFORMATION LIMITATIONS
Fields marked UNKNOWN were not established by the available coded record and do not mean the behavior did not occur.
TRANSPARENCY / RECORD NOTE
The attached AP and Shelter sources identify Yeykenia’s former partner as Jose Alfredo Avila Pena. The Florida Twentieth Judicial Circuit State Attorney’s Office reported that the relationship had ended not long before the shooting and that two people who had left the adult education class with Yeykenia witnessed the attack.
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