Massacre in Valle del Cauca: four men are murdered while watching a football match

The authorities in the Cauca Valley confirmed the murder of four men while they were chatting in the street of the commune of Carthage. According to the inhabitants of the area, the event occurred on the night of February 25 on Calle 3 with Carrera 32 of the Neighborhood Robertulio Lorabetter known as Cypress.

The inhabitants of this district of Cartago, Cauca Valleyindicated that several subjects with pistols opened fire indiscriminately against the four men that they watched a football match on television; more two people too They were injured and were referred to a nearby medical center.

The fatal victims of this massacre have been identified as Jhon Fredy Arango, Jhonatan Mateo Cataño, Nelson Orlando Zapata and Brayan Leonardo López, whose age varied between 41 and 42 years.

There Valle del Cauca National Police They pointed out that this would be retaliation by members of a criminal gang, for an operation that led to the capture of several criminals in the area.

“Apparently, it would be a reprisal for the operations carried out in recent days, during which thirteen people were captured, who were criminal promoters in the north of the department,” said the Colonel Wilson Román Silva Rodríguez, Deputy Commander of the Valle del Cauca Police Department.

There National Police and the Attorney General of the Nation They are on the trail of the murderers who escaped in an unknown direction, which is why neighbors’ versions are collected in order to find the whereabouts of the murderers of these four men in Cartago, Valle del Cauca.

It should be noted that this would be the third massacre in Cartago in the period 2022-2023. Last April and October, there were two others, with one thing in common: the settling of accounts for the sale of narcotics, according to information from local authorities.

Two citizens of Venezuelan nationality were captured as alleged perpetrators of a massacre in Ciudad Bolívar, Antioquia.

According to what we know to date, the detainees are the intellectual authors of the triple homicide of coffee pickers, which occurred in mid-February 2023 in the south-west of the department of Antioquia.

The Office of the Attorney General of the Nation said that according to the investigations carried out, Venezuelan citizens were responsible for monitoring the victims and indicating the exact moment of the triple homicide.

The alleged perpetrators of the Ciudad Bolívar, Antioquia massacre have been identified as Freyderman Eudel Pacheco García and Mateo Tavera Pineda.

“The investigation revealed that Taveras Pineda apparently hired Pacheco García and took him to the scene on a motorcycle to alert him to the movements of the victims and indicate the exact moment to carry out the crime”, explained Daniel Parada Bermúdez , section director. of Antioquia prosecutors, quoted by the station Radio Blue.

Apparently, these two criminals had experience in intelligence activities. For this reason, they were in charge of monitoring the victims and giving the order to assassinate them to the armed group that carried out the massacre.

The Attorney General’s Office charged the named individuals with the crimes of aggravated homicide, manufacturing, trafficking, carrying, or possessing firearms, accessories, parts, or ammunition.

It should be noted that none of the foreign citizens accepted the charges, that is, they pleaded not guilty to the crimes with which they are accused.