2 Florida Truckers Kidnapped, Tortured And Executed By Masked Men

Two truckers were kidnapped, tortured and fatally shot by masked men in Opa-locka, Florida, over the weekend. The investigators are on the lookout for suspects.

Miami-Dade Police Department found the bodies of the slain men in a yard on Rutland Street on Saturday evening. The victims were identified as 50-year-old Osmar Oliva, owner of Oliva Delivery Corp., and 26-year-old Johan Gonzalez Quesada.

A third victim, whose name has not been revealed, managed to escape the torture. He alerted a passerby who eventually called the police. The unnamed victim has been hospitalized at Ryder Trauma Center and remains in critical condition, reported Tampa Bay Times.

According to the police, the victims were kidnapped, tied up and tortured for hours in the back of a moving-type truck before getting shot point-blank.

Oliva was a father of three. "He was very good person [sic], I don't know why this happened to him," Oliva's wife told Miami Herald.

Ovidio Gonzalez Roche, Quesada's father, described his son as a "marvelous person." Quesada had a 1-year-old daughter and a baby born just 10 days ago. "This is such an extraordinary shock. I can't explain what's happened," Roche said.

The detectives are trying to solve the mystery behind the double homicide. Miami-Dade Police Department announced a reward of $5,000 for any information that would lead to the suspects' arrest.

"At this time it is not certain if detectives have been able to speak with the third victim and so once the third victim has recovered enough and is in health to be speaking with the detectives they will be doing so," Angel Rodriguez, Miami Police detective, said as per NBC Miami.

Both the slain victims had a history of law enforcement charges on account of cargo theft. In 2007, Oliva was nabbed for unloading cargo from a stolen tractor-trailer. He was one of the three suspects arrested after the police traced the stolen trailer using a GPS service. The charges against him were dropped the following year.

Quesada was arrested last year for allegedly having two loads of stolen cargo with frozen shrimp and air-conditioning units. The police traced the stolen trailer using GPS and the cargo was recovered from his home. He had pleaded not guilty and was awaiting trial for this case.