Blue Ridge Parkway Homicide

The Blue Ridge Parkway homicide investigators are asking for assistance from parkway visitors that were in the park on October 9, 2021. The National Park Service Investigation department is asking for photos, videos or other images visitors took that day.  If anyone was on the Blue Ridge Parkway on October 9, 2021, and took pictures, videos, used a GoPro or any other type of imaging device please contact the investigators.

Update On Homicide Investigation

Update on 11/17/2021: Two men from Rhode Island have been charged with the homicide of Jorge Garcia. Juan Rivera and Julio Castro have been charged with shooting and killing Garcia at a restaurant in Providence, RI on Sept. 25, 2021. The same two men, Rivera and Castro, are being linked to a murder investigation in North Carolina. Police report the two are being looked at in connection with the discovery of a body of the Rhode Island man Josue Calderon. Calderon’s body was found on the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina on October 9th.

Blue Ridge Parkway Homicide

 

On October 9th a body was found near a park overlook. The body was found below the Yadkin Valley Overlook at Milepost 289.9.  The cause of death was ruled a homicide. If anyone was in that area on that day and has pictures, video, or images they may be helpful in the homicide investigation. The park service is asking for those images.

Blue Ridge Parkway Investigation Update

11.03.2021 UPDATE:

Investigators with the National Park Service are asking for the public’s help to provide photos or videos in support of an ongoing homicide investigation on the Blue Ridge Parkway.

On Saturday afternoon, October 9, 2021, parkway personnel received a report from a park visitor of a body near a parkway overlook. Law enforcement rangers responded to the scene and located a deceased male below Yadkin Valley Overlook at Milepost 289.8. Investigators identified the victim as Josue Calderon, age 33, of Rhode Island. An autopsy conducted by the North Carolina State Medical Examiner’s Office determined cause of death to be homicide.

Though no further details are available at this time, information from other travelers and visitors is often very helpful to investigators. If you took photographs or videos (cell phone, GoPro, etc.) on the Blue Ridge Parkway anywhere in North Carolina on October 9, 2021, or if you have any other information that could help, please submit a tip. You don’t have to tell us who you are, but please tell us what you know:

CALL or TEXT the ISB Tip Line 888-653-0009
ONLINE go.nps.gov/SubmitATip
EMAIL nps_isb@nps.gov
EMERGENCY dial 9-1-1

Investigators with the National Park Service are asking for the public’s help to provide photos or videos in support of an ongoing homicide investigation on the Blue Ridge Parkway.

If you took photographs or videos (cell phone, GoPro, etc.) on the Blue Ridge Parkway anywhere in North Carolina on October 9, 2021, or if you have any other information that could help, please submit a tip using the process in the linked post below. Learn more at: go.nps.gov/nhcd2t

Location of Yadkin Valley Overlook on the Blue Ridge Parkway North Carolina