Hitmen murder two men on a street in SJL (Latina Noticias)

The cases of hitman They don’t stop in Lima. In the early hours of this Tuesday, two men were murdered in front of a house, a few meters from the Jaime Zubieta health center, in the urbanization of the same name, in the neighborhood of San Juan de Lurigancho.

The inhabitants of the place indicated at RPP that, around 1 a.m., three subjects, aboard a red motorcycle taxi, were crossing the area when two of them got out of the smaller vehicle and fired directly at the victims.

Major Carlos Canales, Commissioner Cantor Rey, mentioned that one of the victims was identified as Jair Jose Ponte Acapa, 22, who has a criminal record for aggravated gang robbery; sale, use and possession of weapons, from 2021 to 2022. The second person has not yet been identified.

The ace victims They would be people who used to spend the night near a park, however, that day they decided to change places until they reached the house where they lost their lives. He had already put down the cardboard he would sleep on, they had blankets and food next to them.

The crime of contract murder carries a prison sentence of 25 to 35 years, up to life imprisonment if there are aggravating circumstances.  (Latin News)
The crime of contract murder carries a prison sentence of 25 to 35 years, up to life imprisonment if there are aggravating circumstances. (Latin News)

Neighbors said Ponte Acapa was a well-known person in the area and they did not consider him dangerous.

A nearby home’s security camera was able to capture the moment the assassins exited the smaller vehicle and fired about four times at their targets.

Forensic experts They arrived at the scene to analyze the crime scene, bodies and gunshot wounds. No casing was found, so it is believed that the shots were executed with a revolver.

The crime of hitman shall be punished with a custodial sentence of 25 to 35 years, which may go as far as life imprisonment if there are aggravating circumstances. This was explained after the recent cases of this type of crime, Judge Luis del Carpio Narváez, member of the First National Collegiate Criminal Court, who pointed out that, according to article 108-C of the Criminal Code, in the crime of murder these aggravating circumstances: if minors participate as material perpetrators or if it is committed by a criminal organization.

Moreover, he clarified that the hitman “It is a homicide committed in exchange for financial or other consideration”, unlike the crime of homicide for profit. “In violation of the legal right (life), for the commission of the hitman up to four people are involved: the hirer, the intermediary, the perpetrator and the victim,” he said.

In exchange, for-profit homicide it is committed only by the material author, for example someone who wants to access the estate of a wealthy relative.

On the other hand, a filming was recorded near the work of the Manuel Dulanto health facility, in the Junín jirón, in the callao.

According to witnesses, a suspicious-looking subject dressed in black and wearing a mask came to the scene and fired at the scene, firing approximately four rounds.

Earlier, in another apparent attack on the artwork, subjects allegedly tried to set the place on fire, one of the witnesses added to RPA.

Police arrived in the area, ruled out any injuries. and it is believed to be a case of extortion against work

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