ALFRED — Geoffrey Reese, a former Texas resident, was found guilty Thursday of assault charges arising from the May 4, 2008 shooting of his then-girlfriend in Saco.

After the jury’s verdict, his victim, Tonya Garza, told the court that Reese had left her on the street to die.

A jury at York County Superior Court found Reese guilty on charges of elevated aggravated assault and aggravated assault related to the shooting of Garza last year.

Reese, 26 at the time, was arrested in May of 2008 after twice shooting Garza, who was 32 at the time, and leaving her on the side of Cascade Road in Saco. He and Garza had recently relocated from Texas and had been staying at a hotel in Old Orchard Beach.

Garza said in court yesterday that she had forgiven Reese. She described Reese as cold and calculating, and said that he left her on the side of the road to “die like a dog” and then threw out her belongings “as if I never existed.”

Reese systematically put into place the events that occurred around the time of the shooting, said Garza, her voice shaking as she recalled what happened last year. Reese cleared the hotel room of all her belongings a couple of weeks before the shooting, bought a shovel with which he planned to bury her, and he planned to check out of the hotel the day after he shot her.

“He shot me, and he has no remorse,” she said. She said she thought Reese should receive the maximum sentence possible.

Reese’s mother, Anna Hendricks, said in court that she loves her son and will never stop praying or fighting for him. She said the family is going to appeal the case.

She said Reese is her only son and she is “not going to lose him.”

“I will continue to fight, as long as I have breath in my body, to get my son home,” said Hendricks.

Reese is scheduled to be sentenced on July 7 at 2 p.m.

—Staff Writer Liz Gotthelf can be contacted at 282-1535, Ext. 325 or egotthelf@journaltribune.com.