Horrific video shows moment student attacks teacher before choking, raping her: ‘Why won’t you just die?’
Unsettling new video shows a Las Vegas high school student stalking the school halls before he viciously attacked a teacher in her classroom — raping her and choking her until she lost consciousness.
The creepy clip, obtained by KLAS-TV, shows Jonathan Martinez Garcia strolling through Eldorado High School and attempting to open a classroom door near the end of a hall before skulking away.
Martinez Garcia, 17, is serving a minimum of 16 years in prison after being found guilty in June for the vile assault on his former teacher in April 2022. He could remain behind bars for up to 40 years.
The surveillance footage, released after a public records request, also shows his teacher — identified only as Sade — popping her head out of the classroom after Martinez Garcia wanders off.
The student then turns around and heads back to the room.
The chilling clip cuts to Martinez Garcia, then 16, struggling with the educator before he violently drags her back into the classroom.
The video then jumps to 3:05 p.m., nearly an hour and a half after the teen launched his attack, walking out of the classroom with his head down.
Separate bodycam footage from a Clark County School District Police officer, also obtained through a public records request, shows Martinez Garcia being apprehended later in the day.
“Possible suspect sighting, he sees the suspect right outside of his residence right now,” the officer, who eventually arrested the unhinged teen, hears over the radio.
The teen was sitting in a tinted-out vehicle as the arresting officer approached.
“Hey, driver, turn the car off. Turn the car off. Jonathan, step out of the car,” the CCSDPD officer commands, adding, “You know why we’re here?”
Now changed into his high school’s ROTC uniform, Martinez Garcia exits the car and calmly says, “No” before the video ends.
During his June 2023 sentencing, the teen smirked as his teacher recounted the sickening and depraved assault.
“Since it happened, there hasn’t been a single night I haven’t dreamt of the attack,” Sade said in her harrowing statement.
“I would wake up in a new spot and position each time knowing that he’d just drag my limp, and near lifeless body to a different part of the classroom to do whatever he so chose to do with my body, as I lay unconscious,” she continued.
“He’d beat my body so badly that I could no longer fight.”
Sade told police that she came to at one point and asked her student why he was attacking her — and he chillingly responded that he “didn’t like teachers” so he was “getting revenge.”
Martinez Garcia then choked her unconscious. When she awoke, her pants and underwear had been pulled down and he was pouring liquid over her.
Sade told investigators that Martinez Garcia said he was going to “set something on fire” before toppling a heavy bookshelf on top of her.
The twisted teen then sat down on top of the bookshelf and tried to slash her wrists.
“I was being crushed to near death,” the traumatized teacher recounted.
Clark County Chief Deputy District Attorney William Rowles also told the court during sentencing that Martinez Garcia asked Sade, “why won’t you just die?”
Garcia previously pleaded guilty to attempted murder, battery with use of a deadly weapon resulting in substantial bodily harm, and attempted sexual assault.
The teen claimed he “blacked out” during the attack but later told police he raped his teacher and remembered trying to strangle her.
“I regret what I’ve done,” Martinez Garcia told the court in June.
“I also regret the things I should have done, but didn’t do.”
Martinez Garcia’s attorney, meanwhile, argued that an asthma drug the teen was taking caused severe mood swings and delusions.
The drug, Singulair, is the focus of a number of lawsuits over severe mental health problems users have experienced, the public defender said. The drug is also known as Montelukast.
“He had no history of anything but being a perfect, loving kid,” Tyler Gaston told the court.
Judge Kathleen Delaney sentenced the teen to up to 40 years in prison.
“It is the most heinous type of crime there could be,” she said.
