Santo Domingo

Lawyer Miriam Pacheco was killed with several gunshot wounds in her office located in a building in Santo Domingo this Monday afternoon the 18th.

The violent death occurred on Abraham Calazacon and Mexicali streets, a few blocks from the court unit, around 5:00 p.m., according to surveillance video footage of the building and surrounding sectors.

Eyewitnesses discovered that a subject with dark skin and thin build entered office 104 on the first floor of the building.

Pacheco was surprised in her office by a person who did not give her time to defend herself from a direct armed attack.

Gary Vergara, in charge of the police sub-area 21 command, said that forensic agents collected about 8 pieces of ballistic evidence and two unexpected projectiles, caliber 9 millimeters (mm).

The witness stated that the alleged killer was a young man, over 20 years old, who ran down the building. “I tried to drop the subject, but he threatened me with a firearm and then got into a lead-colored car,” he said.

Prosecutor Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas suffered a gunshot attack while traveling in a vehicle; his companion died

The professional died in her office from gunshot wounds. Emergency medical assistance from several medical units arrived at the scene, but there they only found that Pacheco had died.

According to the lawyer, Pacheco practiced that profession for about nine years. The lawyer was in charge of defending the victims in the case of the rollover of a rural passenger bus of a carrier from Santo Domingo. A traffic accident occurred on the Valle Hermoso-Cristóbal Colón road and left 6 dead and 15 injured in March 2020.

Among other attacks in the province of Tsáchila, in May 2022 there was an attack on Víctor Alcívar Bejarán, the prosecutor of the Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas Province Flagrant Unit, while he was traveling in a vehicle.

The officer was traveling with Melissa Ramos Cedeño, who died as a result of the gunfire immediately after the attack.

While so far this year, around 145 violent deaths have been recorded in Santo Domingo and La Concordia, according to data from police subzone 21.