Luis Garcia was 60 when he was found dead inside a home on Ridgemont Drive in Londonderry, New Hampshire, on October 1, 2019. A pastor at New England Pentecostal Ministries in Pelham, Garcia—born in Puerto Rico and known as Kiko—had come to the house that day to help with a painting job. The state medical examiner determined he died from a single gunshot wound to the neck; authorities treated the death as a homicide.

Within a day, 24-year-old Brandon Castiglione, who lived at the home and had attended Garcia’s church and prayer meetings, was arrested and charged with second-degree murder for recklessly causing Garcia’s death. The case moved through the courts; reporting from the trial emphasized that prosecutors did not establish a clear motive. In May 2023 a jury convicted Castiglione of two counts of second-degree murder, and that summer a judge sentenced him to a stand-committed term of 42 years to life in prison. The shooting and its aftermath deeply affected the congregation, and a separate shooting at a church wedding later that October involving Garcia’s stepson added to the community’s trauma.

If anyone knew Luis Garcia, his movements on October 1, 2019, or his connections in the Londonderry and Pelham area, please share what you remember.