A man is facing two counts of murder after police say he repeatedly shot two men Sunday evening on a dirt road near a plant nursery in southern Miami-Dade County.
Eric Jose Garcia, 35, was driving his Ford Ranger pickup on the farm grounds in the Redland Farm District at 21495 SW 240th St. — where he also lives — shortly after 5 p.m. when he saw a Ford F-250 pick-up up who, according to police, blocked his path.
Two men stood outside the other truck, identified Monday as Juan Miguel Menjivar, 53, and William Galdamez Menjivar, 40, police said in their arrest report.
Police say Garcia got out of his truck with a gun in his hand and shot both men. According to the report, they were already wounded and both tried to run away, but Garcia continued to shoot at them until they were dead.
After killing them, Garcia called the police. Responding officers took Garcia into custody and transported him to a homicide interrogation room. After his rights were read, he told them both men were holding beer bottles.
He told police he asked the men to move their pickup, but they said no. The elder Manjivar hit the hood of his truck with a beer bottle, he told police. Garcia then said he felt like the two men were getting too close to the driver’s side door.
When asked why he kept shooting, Garcia said that “he wanted to execute them both and make sure they were dead,” police said in their report.
As of Monday afternoon, Garcia was being held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center. A judge did not set his bail for his two murder charges. Information about his legal representation was not immediately available.
