Margurite Victoria Garcia, 25, died in Waterloo, Alabama, on September 11, 2015, in an episode of gun violence that left more than one life extinguished and a small community forced to reckon with an ordinary day turning suddenly brutal.
Online memorial records for that date link Garcia’s death to a double shooting in Lauderdale County, describing her as “lost to gun violence” and naming a second fatality from the same incident: Michael Nicholas Linville, 50.
The pairing of the two names on the same date and place suggests the deaths were part of the same burst of violence rather than separate tragedies happening to coincide.
Those same online records point to contemporaneous reporting that a man was charged with capital murder in connection with the Lauderdale County double shooting. However, the accessible online material that remains viewable from those references does not provide the suspect’s identity, the timeline of any arrest, or what happened afterward in court—only that a capital-murder charge was reported in relation to the double shooting that took Garcia’s life.
