A 31-year-old man, identified as Kevin Joel Castro-Garcia, who had been deported from the United States twice before, was charged with murder twice within a week in Nashville, Tennessee.
The initial charge, filed on October 10, was in connection to the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Elmer Nahum Miranda-Martinez.
The Metropolitan Nashville Police Department reported that Miranda-Martinez’s body was discovered on September 27 in the trunk of a burned vehicle that had been abandoned in a wooded area near Franklin Limestone Road. Authorities indicated that the victim had been shot before being placed in the vehicle.