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SAN FRANCISCO — After nearly a week of deliberations, a jury of six men and six women has announced they have reached a verdict deciding the fate of an undocumented immigrant accused of fatally shooting 32-year-old Kate Steinle two years ago at San Francisco’s Pier 14.

The Kate Steinle verdict is being handed down now. Live on Fox News

In an interview you'll see only on ABC7 News, the man accused of shooting and killing a young woman at San Francisco's Pier 14 admitted to the crime and talked about where he got the gun. Jose Inez Garcia Zarate, who was also known as Juan Francisco López-Sánchez, didn't recall every detail because he says he doesn't remember everything that happened. But in the 45 minute jailhouse interview, he revealed how the shooting went down and why he kept returning to the United States after being deported numerous times. Barnard: "Did you shoot Kate Steinle, the lady who was down...

In a stunning decision Thursday night, a San Francisco jury handed down a not guilty verdict to Jose Garcia Zarate, and the White House issued an official response Friday morning.Zarate, an illegal immigrant and convicted felon, shot and killed Kate Steinle while she was walking with her family in July of 2015. Zarate, who had been deported five times, was in San Francisco at the time due to their sanctuary city status.  In 2015, Zarate was released by the San Fransisco county jail, even though federal agents asked for him to be detained and eventually deported.Zarate was found not guilty by a San...

After a San Francisco jury acquitted on Thursday an illegal alien, Jose Ines Garcia Zarate respectively, in the shooting death of Kate Steinle (he was declared not guilty of murder and/or manslaughter) in one of the most shocking decisions of late, President Trump went on to Twitter and blasted the Democrats for their irresponsible policies, i.e. unvetted immigration and sanctuary cities. Here’s the POTUS on Friday morning: A disgraceful verdict in the Kate Steinle case! No wonder the people of our Country are so angry with Illegal Immigration. The Kate Steinle killer came back and back over the weakly protected...

Steyn used the Steinle case to segue into a broader discussion about immigration, asking why the United States admitted people who didn't speak the language and had a “grade-two education”: “To go back to the old line about the jobs Americans won't do. Every society has a proportion of murderers. Murder is a job that Americans will do just as dutchmen will do or Slovenes will do. You don't need to import foreigners to add to your murder population. This guy had a — This guy had a grade-2 education ... Why are we importing and why is one political...

In case you missed the breaking news Thursday, Jose Zarate, the illegal alien who shot and killed Kate Steinle in San Francisco, was found not guilty. Zarate, you’ll remember, had been deported five times prior to the deadly shooting of Steinle. He had even been in jail on a drug charge prior to the shooting but thanks to San Francisco’s sanctuary city laws, Zarate was released despite a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainer on him. As you can imagine, President Trump, who campaigned on cracking down on illegal immigration and building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, was furious at the...