HAMPSTEAD, N.C. — A Naples native was one of three men found dead in a car at a North Carolina gas station Sunday morning.
23-year-old Ivan R. Garcia and the two other men were stationed at Camp Lejuene in Jacksonville, N.C.
Wednesday, the Pender County Sheriff's Office (PCSO) said all three deaths are consistent due to Carbon Monoxide Poisoning.
All three men were Marine lance corporals working as motor vehicle operators at the camp.
Deputies with PCSO responded to a missing person call from one of the men's mothers Sunday. She informed them that her son had not arrived home on a flight to Oklahoma the night before.
Deputies responded to the call and later found the men unresponsive in a privately owned car outside of a Speedway gas station, 29 miles from Campe Lejeune.
Garcia attended Lely High School in Naples and graduated in 2019.
It is a sad day anytime one of our CCPS alumni passes away, especially at such a young age.
The other men were identified as Tanner J. Kaltenberg, 19, of Madison, Wisconsin and Merax C. Dockery, 23, of Pottawatomie, Oklahoma.
