On October 1, 2023, around 6:00 a.m., police in Amarillo responded to a 911 call about a shooting at a home in the 4400 block of Parker Street in the Southlawn neighborhood. Officers found 27-year-old Orlando Homero Garces Jr. inside the residence with multiple gunshot wounds; he was pronounced deceased at the scene.

At the scene, 25-year-old Daniel Mireles Jr. was arrested and booked into the Randall County Jail on a murder charge. The Amarillo Police Department’s Homicide Unit continued investigating the circumstances of Garces’s death, and authorities asked anyone with information to contact Amarillo Crime Stoppers or submit tips through the P3 Tips App.

Garces, born October 20, 1995, was a Navy veteran and Amarillo resident who attended Caprock High School and Amarillo College. He worked as a barber and an operations leader at Cacique Foods, and is remembered as a loving husband and father. Funeral services were held October 5, 2023; anyone with information about the shooting is asked to contact investigators.