Jose Rafael Cantarero (Orange County Sheriff’s Office) and the scene outside the home where he allegedly killed two men (WESH screenshot)
A 29-year-old man in Florida is accused of killing two men, allegedly bashing their heads in with a hammer to get “revenge” on the victims for previously pressing charges against him.
Jose Rafael Cantarero was taken into custody on Saturday and charged with two counts of first-degree murder with a weapon in the horrific slayings of Joseph Garcia Oliver and Eswin Jose Aragon Hernandez, authorities announced.
According to a probable cause affidavit obtained by Law&Crime, deputies with the Orange County Sheriff’s Office at about 10 p.m. on Jan. 27, 2024, responded to a call at a residence located in the 1000 block of Tucker Avenue in Orlando in reference to a “man down call.” The caller, a male identified in the document as “the witness,” told the dispatcher that Cantarero had just killed two people inside of the home.
Upon arriving at the scene, deputies observed two adult males lying on the floor inside of the residence. They were both surrounded by large pools of blood on the floor and appeared to have suffered “severe trauma” to the head. Blood spatter was also found on the walls around both of the bodies.