Lubbock mother turns tragedy into purpose through Katrina’s Legacy Foundation

Xavier Garcia was arrested the next day after investigators found him with Castillo's car. He later pleaded guilty to capital murder.

Now Castillo's mother has turned that loss into Katrina's Legacy Foundation, an organization built around her daughter's memory, refusing to let her become just a name in a case file.

For families across the South Plains who have lost someone to violence, groups like this offer something the courtroom can't: a way to keep moving without letting the person disappear.

Grief doesn't end when a trial does, and Castillo's mother is proof that what comes after can still mean something.

Garcia's guilty plea closed the legal chapter of this story years ago. What his victim's family does with the years since is still being written, one foundation event at a time.