MIAMI — A 40-year-old man was behind bars on Monday in Miami-Dade County, accused of a man’s 2021 murder in Miami’s Little Havana neighborhood, records show.
Detectives accused Edgar Olivas of fatally shooting Walter Castañeda during a robbery shortly after 8:10 p.m. on Oct. 1, 2021, at 443 NW 12 Ave., records show.
Castañeda, 62, who was armed with a .38 revolver, was pulling down shutters after closing his Boost Mobile store when Olivas ambushed him, police reported, according to an arrest warrant.
“Let everything go,” Olivas, then 36, ordered Castañeda, a witness reported to police, according to the arrest warrant.
Olivas, of Orlando, stole Castañeda’s black bag, and Castañeda pulled out a revolver and fired at Olivas, who then returned fire and fled, according to the warrant.
Miami Fire Rescue personnel took Castañeda to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center, where a doctor later pronounced him dead, records show.
A Miami homicide detective tracked Olivas’s getaway car, a white 2022 four-door Honda Civic that was reported stolen on Oct. 3, 2021, according to police.
The owner of the Honda Civic reported renting the car on Sept. 29, 2021, to a woman who police later identified as Megan Hester-Villalobos, according to the arrest warrant.
The Honda’s GPS helped detectives to find evidence at a motel at 148 NW 167 St., near North Miami Beach, a gas station at 744 NW 12 Ave., in Little Havana, and an apartment at 2523 N. Alafaya Trail, in Orlando, according to the arrest warrant.
Orange County Sheriff’s Office deputies helped Miami homicide detectives find a video of the Honda that was published on an Instagram account that Hester-Villalobos used, according to the arrest warrant.
Miami-Dade corrections booked Olivas, 40, shortly before 8:55 a.m. on Friday at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center near Doral, according to county inmate records.
Olivas faced two charges: First-degree murder and armed robbery with a deadly weapon, according to county court records. A judge denied him bond.
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