A man twice deported faces a criminal murdy charge for the second time in a week in connection with a body found in a car, according to reports.
According to Metro Police, this time, 31-year-old Kevin Castro-Garcia was charged with the murder of a 26-year-old South Nashville man who was reported missing by his mother earlier this month.
Police say Brandon Rivas-Noriega was last seen driving his mother’s 2015 Ford Focus on Oct. 3. He was reported missing Oct. 5 after the family received messages from him that he was in trouble and needed money.
During the missing person investigation, detectives learned that Rivas-Noriega frequented a residence on Fanning Drive in Antioch.
When officers searched the residence on Monday, detectives located the owner’s manual for a Ford Focus, Rivas-Noriega’s driver license and paperwork for property on Rural Hill Road in Antioch.
Detectives went there and found the Ford Focus parked behind an abandoned trailer. Decomposing human remains were found in the car’s trunk. Police say autopsy results identified the remains as those of Rivas-Noriega.
According to Metro Police, several tattoos had been cut away from the victim’s body. Detectives determined that Rivas-Noriega died from multiple gunshot wounds.
Castro-Garcia is alleged to have shot Rivas-Noriega inside the residence on Fanning Drive. He is charged with criminal homicide and abuse of a corpse.
Castro-Garcia was also charged with criminal homicide Tuesday for the deadly shooting of 37-year-old Elmer Nahum Miranda-Martinez.
Police say his badly burned body was found on Sept. 27 in the trunk of a car that had been set on fire and left in a wooded area off Franklin Limestone Road.
Castro-Garcia is a native of Honduras who was twice been deported from the United States, according to Metro Police.
He is now jailed on $1.1 million bond.
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