LIVINGSTON — Robert Gene Garza never gave a second thought to joining a far South Texas street gang called the Tri-City Bombers, where the skinny kid of 9 or 10 became known as “Bones.”
By age 20 he was on the state’s death row, convicted of participating in a gang ambush where four women were shot dead in Donna, in the Rio Grande Valley. He also was later charged, but never tried, for another gang-initiated massacre that left six people dead in nearby Edinburg.
Garza, 30, is set for execution today in Huntsville.