After Kate Steinle Acquittal, Shooter Indicted on Federal Charges

Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, arrested in connection with the July 1, 2015, shooting of Kate Steinle on a pier in San Francisco is led into the Hall of Justice for his arraignment in San Francisco, Calif., on July 7, 2015. Michael Macor/Reuters

WASHINGTON—Days after a jury acquitted Jose Ines Garcia Zarate in the fatal shooting of Kate Steinle in 2015, a federal grand jury has indicted him.

On Dec. 5, the Department of Justice said Garcia Zarate is now facing federal charges in San Francisco. Garcia Zarate, 47, was previously known as Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez. He is a Mexican national who has been deported from the United States five times previously.