Ricky Iglesias

Ricky Enrique Iglesias was 43 years old and lived in the Miami area. Public records and contemporary news coverage identify him by name and age and place him in the southwest Miami neighborhood where he spent time with family and friends.

Those who knew Ricky would have recognized him in the ordinary rhythms of life in a South Florida community—moving between work, family, and time outdoors. Contemporary reports identify that he was riding an all-terrain vehicle (ATV) on the evening of August 28, 2016, accompanied by a companion; those close-to-the-ground details reflect someone engaged with the local neighborhood and its everyday activities.

While available public records and news accounts focus on the circumstances of his death, they also make clear that a real person is at the center of that record: someone with relationships and a life rooted in Miami. Reliable reporting from the time names friends and neighbors who reacted to the news and who spoke of community tensions—indirect evidence of the social circles and local ties that mattered in Ricky’s life.

Because no published family obituary or funeral-home notice matching his name and the exact August 28, 2016 death date could be located in the public obituary archives consulted, this remembrance centers on what can be respectfully verified: Ricky Enrique Iglesias was a 43-year-old member of his Miami community whose life had value beyond the facts recorded in news accounts. He is memorialized here with care and restraint, honoring the fact that a person who mattered to others is gone and remembering the human presence he represented in his neighborhood.