Shocking Jeep Attack: Man Fatally Drags Victim, Sends Disturbing ‘I Had To’ Message

In Minnesota, a man has received his sentence for a tragic incident where he dragged a victim with his vehicle, resulting in a fatal skull injury during a botched drug transaction.

Lamont Eugene Williams, a 22-year-old, was sentenced to 12 and a half years behind bars, with consideration for 40 days already served. He was found guilty of second-degree murder without intent in the killing of 21-year-old Alexif Loeza Galvan.

According to a probable cause statement reviewed by Law&Crime, the events unfolded on March 6, 2025, when Williams and Galvan were discussing a drug deal via Facebook Messenger. Williams expressed interest in purchasing marijuana from Galvan. Around 8:30 p.m., Williams arrived in the vicinity of Galvan’s residence, signaling his presence by stating, “I’m in this Jeep.” Telephone location data verified his location on the 8300 block of 11th Avenue South in Bloomington, a suburb located 10 miles from Minneapolis.

At that moment, Galvan was with his family, and court documents reveal that he informed a family member that “Monty”—later identified as Williams—had reached out to buy some “weed.” Galvan’s mother recalled her son saying he was stepping outside to make a sale.

Within just a couple of minutes, she reported hearing shouting coming from the front of their home.

The mother told law enforcement officers that she looked outside her home to see her son “leaning into the passenger side of a small, dark colored SUV.” He “appeared to be half in and half out of the vehicle,” the statement of probable cause stated.

Galvan and someone inside the vehicle were “pulling a backpack back and forth” before the vehicle accelerated and Galvan wound up “lying in the street a few houses down” from his home. His family then went outside to check on him.

Location data from Williams’ phone showed him proceeding to travel east, and at about 8:43 p.m., he messaged Galvan, saying, “My fault gang I had to,” the court document goes on.

A minute later, law enforcement officers responded to the area after being called about a man — Galvan — “lying on the pavement near the snowbank on the west side of the road.” He looked to have suffered “severe trauma” and difficulty breathing, according to Bloomington police detectives.

The victim was transported to a nearby hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.

Bloomington Police Department detectives found Williams driving a gray Jeep Renegade registered to his mother and arrested him. While carrying out a search warrant on the vehicle, they reportedly found a Polymer 80 9 mm handgun in the front passenger seat, and a black Coach backpack with multiple plastic bags of marijuana adding up to more than half a pound.

The following day, an autopsy of Galvan determined that a preliminary cause of death was blunt force trauma, detectives wrote in the probable cause statement. He had “[n]umerous injuries,” including a brain bleed, a skull fracture, bruising on the left side of his face and head, multiple rib fractures, and bruising on his lower spine.

He also had “road rash,” with “several small rocks and gravel” embedded in those areas, detectives said.

Galvan’s family members spoke during Williams’ sentencing hearing, expressing the trauma his death caused them.

“I had to watch my brother take his last breath,” Galvan’s sister, Yamilet Loeza, said Tuesday in a victim impact statement, per the The St. Paul Pioneer Press. “Nothing could have prepared me for the silence that came after.”

Assistant Hennepin County Attorney Krista White also expressed how “horrible” the victim’s death was.

“This was a horrible death, Your Honor,” White reportedly told the presiding judge. “You saw the photos. He was dragged down to the bone, his skull was crushed.”

Williams claimed he acted in self-defense and that Galvan was the aggressor, the newspaper reported.

A GoFundMe for Galvan remembered him as “a light in all of our lives—always laughing, smiling, and bringing joy to everyone around him.”