The mother of a 32-year-old Abiquiú man fatally stabbed in the parking lot of a laundromat north of Española in February is suing the business and its owners.

Sharon Garcia's lawsuit claims Cesar Garcia — the Taos man charged with murdering her son Anthony Velasquez — had been "openly harassing customers" and "scaring and bothering people" in the parking lot of the Ohkay Laundromat "all day" prior to the stabbing without management taking any effective action to protect patrons from the threat he posed.

Cesar Garcia, 27, had just come from Taos where he'd murdered his girlfriend and another woman, the wrongful death lawsuit states. Reports from the time confirm police named him as a "person of interest" in the deaths of Ashley Casias and Anastasia Romo — who were killed in El Prado less

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