A man accused of killing his girlfriend and stuffing her in a suitcase in Florida drove around with her body for hundreds of miles before he was shot by U.S. Marshals in Alabama, authorities said.

An autopsy determined that Carrera had been strangled with a power cord. Investigators have accused Quintero of taking the suitcase with her remains to the Alabama-Georgia state line and discarding it off Highway 84, where it was later recovered by law enforcement authorities.

A missing persons case out of Orange County reportedly came to a tragic end last month after authorities said they found a woman dead and dismembered in a suitcase on the side of a Georgia highway.

Florida man accused of strangling, dismembering girlfriend