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Capital murder suspect's pretrial hearing cancelled, scheduling order to be revised

The court announced the hearing was cancelled and the current scheduling order would be revised about 30 minutes after the hearing was scheduled to begin.

Credit: Tyler Morning Telegraph

Attorney Brett Harrison, left, talks with his client Gustavo Zavala-Garcia along with an interpreter, at right, at the Smith County Courthouse on Thursday May 2, 2019. (Sarah A. Miller/Tyler Morning Telegraph)

TYLER, Texas — Capital murder suspect Gustavo Zavala-Garcia was scheduled for a pretrial hearing on Thursday. He was in the courtroom with his attorneys and the interpreters assigned to the case, but the hearing did not take place.

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The court announced the hearing was cancelled and the current scheduling order would be revised about 30 minutes after the hearing was scheduled to begin.

Zavala-Garcia, 26, is accused of the November 2016 killing of 10-year-old Kayla Gomez-Orozco, and, if convicted on the capital murder charge, could be sentenced to death.

Read more from CBS19's newspaper partner, the Tyler Morning Telegraph.