LOS ANGELES (TNND) — A youth soccer coach who is also an undocumented immigrant was charged with murder after a 13-year-old boy was found dead alongside a road in Ventura County, California.

Oscar "Omar" Hernandez was reported missing by his family on March 28 after he took a train to Lancaster to visit his coach, 43-year-old Mario Edgardo Garcia-Aquino, and was wasn't heard from again, according to Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman.

The Department of Homeland Security called Garcia-Aquino a "depraved illegal alien" in a post on X and said he "never should have been in this country."

The coach is accused of killing Hernandez and "dumping his body" in Oxnard, where his body was found on April 2, Hochman said.

Los Angeles Sheriff Robert Luna said at a news conference that Garcia-Aquino was a youth travel soccer coach with the Hurricane Valley Boys' Soccer Club in the Sylmar area.

Garcia-Aquino was charged with one count of murder with the special circumstance allegation of murder during the commission or attempted commission of lewd acts with a child, making him eligible for the death penalty.

The complaint was later amended to include one felony count each of assault with the intent to commit a sexual offense and lewd act upon a child 14 or 15 years old. On Dec. 10, 2022, the soccer coach allegedly sexually assaulted a teenager at his then-home in Sylmar, according to the district attorney.

Garcia-Aquino is also accused of sexually assaulting a 16-year-old boy in Palmdale on Feb. 22, 2024, Hochman said. If convicted, he faces a possible minimum sentence of six years in state prison.

The sheriff added that the coach had no reported criminal history and special victim's bureau detectives "believe there may be additional victims."

"These cases are tragic, and the Hernandez family, you have our deepest sympathy for a loss that words cannot even begin to describe," Hochman told the family. "Our role, though, is to bring justice to this family and to hold the person responsible for these brutal, heinous, unspeakable, unthinkable acts, hold them accountable and prosecute and punish them to the full extent of the law."

Additional victims or anyone with information is asked to contact the Los Angeles Police Department’s Juvenile Division, Abused Child Unit at (818) 374-5415 or the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Special Victims Bureau at (877) 710-5273. Information may also be provided anonymously by phone to the Los Angeles Regional Crime Stoppers hotline at (800) 222-8477 or online at lacrimestoppers.org.