He reported his company for exploiting undocumented workers. His boss paid to kill him, police say
Eliud Montoya’s vehicle was still running when police found him lying face down along a tree-lined road next to the mobile home park where he lived in Garden City, Ga. That afternoon, Aug. 19, 2017, the 41-year-old tree-service worker had been shot twice in the back and once in the head in what authorities would later describe as an “execution-style slaying" in federal court records.
He was wearing pajama pants and flip-flops, and he had left his wallet at home, as though he wasn’t planning to go farther than the end of the street. His Honda sedan was parked right next to his work truck, according to an affidavit. And inside the car, the motive for his killing seemed to be written on a piece of yellow notebook paper — Montoya’s last journal entry.
“They are always watching me,” Montoya began, “because of a complaint I [filed] on ways they let the Foreman treat [his] employees.”
The note appeared to have been written on Aug. 17, 2017, two days before his killing, according to a Garden City Police Department search warrant. It wouldn’t take police more than an hour to figure out why the date was so significant: That day, Montoya filed a complaint against his boss, Pablo Rangel-Rubio, with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
He had accused Rangel-Rubio of exploiting undocumented workers at his company, Wolf Tree, and stealing their wages for personal gain, compiling sworn affidavits from three undocumented workers willing to come forward to join Montoya as whistleblowers. When Montoya’s mother, Avelina Alvares, arrived at the scene, she told Garden City Police Detective Roberto Rodriguez she knew exactly what had happened.
Without hesitation,” Rodriguez wrote in an affidavit, “she advised his boss killed him.”
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