On April 29, 2022, around 12:45 a.m., 32-year-old Able Garcia Jr. of Houston was found dead from multiple gunshot wounds inside an apartment in the 500 block of West LaGrange Street in Lake Charles, Louisiana. A second victim, 36-year-old Pedro Oswaldo Duarte Rangel, also from Houston, was found inside the same apartment with multiple gunshot wounds.

Detectives determined both men had moved from Houston to Lake Charles about six months earlier. Investigators say the killings were drug-related and involved perpetrators who knew the victims from Houston. Three suspects from the Houston area allegedly traveled to Lake Charles to carry out the attack, then fled back to Texas.

On July 6, 2022, authorities arrested Miguel Angel Perez Cervantes, 33, Pedro Ramiro Reyes Valdez, 24, and Juan Antonio Vasquez Flores, 53, at separate Houston-area locations. Cervantes and Valdez were charged with first-degree murder; Flores was charged with criminal conspiracy to commit first-degree murder.

Did anyone in the Houston or Lake Charles communities know Able Garcia Jr. or have information about his move and ties to the suspects?