A repo man shot to death in Fauquier County, Virginia, last week had just recently taken the job to save money for a wedding ring for his wife.
Last August, 23-year-old Junior Jordan Montero married Mayensy Molina. He treated her young son like his own and wanted to move out of his in-laws' home into a house of their own.
"He was a very loving husband," Molina said. "He loved me so much."
Montero, of Hyattsville, Maryland, worked construction and as a security guard. Two weeks ago, he took a job repossessing cars.
Shortly after midnight Friday, Montero was trying to repossess a 10-year-old pickup truck on Conde Road in Fauquier County. The owner of the truck came out shooting, authorities said, and the tow truck and pickup truck ended up in a water-filled ditch. Divers tried to rescue Montero, but there was nothing they could do to save him.
When a sheriff's sergeant reached the scene, the suspected shooter, 53-year-old Carroll Gregg, pointed to the ditch and said, "He's in there dead," according to arrest documents.
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"I shot him," Gregg allegedly said. "I shot, fell and shot again. It was an accident."
Gregg is charged with second-degree murder.
Montero's body will be taken to his native Dominican Republic for burial.
