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Suspect in 2019 murder of local pastor indicted on related charges

By Dean Shalhoup - Senior Staff Reporter | Nov 16, 2020

Brandon Castiglione, 26, most recently of 15 Ridgemont Drive, Londonderry

CONCORD – A statewide grand jury convened this month on behalf of Rockingham County Superior Court handed up two second-degree murder indictments for Brandon Castiglione, the former Londonderry man accused of killing 60-year-old Luis Garcia in October 2019.

Castiglione, 26, was arrested just hours after the Oct. 1 death of Garcia, a pastor who served congregations that included the New England Pentecostal Church in Pelham.

One of the indictments accuses Castiglione, who at the time of the murder lived with his father, Mark Castiglione, at 15 Ridgemont Drive in Londonderry, of “knowingly” causing Garcia’s death by shooting him through the neck with a firearm.

The other indictment brings the alternate charge accusing Castiglione of “recklessly” causing Garcia’s death by shooting him through the neck with a firearm, according to the indictments.

Castiglione waived arraignment in the Rockingham County court and has since been held in jail as the case proceeds.

Meanwhile, the murder of Garcia has a connection to another shooting that occurred just two weeks later during a wedding ceremony at the same New England Pentecostal Church where Garcia occasionally served.

The suspect in that shooting, in which three people were injured but survived, is Garcia’s stepson, Dale Holloway Jr., then a Manchester resident who moved there several months after being released from a Massachusetts prison after serving time on assault related charges.

One of the people injured during the Pelham church wedding was the groom, Mark Castiglione, who is Brandon Castiglione’s father.

The bride also sustained relatively minor injuries, but the most seriously injured was Bishop Stanley Choate, who was presiding over the wedding when Holloway allegedly walked into the church and began shooting.

Holloway also faces several charges in another case, in which he allegedly violently assaulted his public defender while the two met in an interview room at Valley Street jail in Manchester.

That case is proceeding in Hillsborough County Superior Court North, while the Pelham case is proceeding in Hillsborough County Superior Court South in Nashua.

Dean Shalhoup may be reached at 594-1256 or dshalhoup@nashuatelegraph.com.

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