Four subjects shot at a transit agent in Esmeraldas

Four subjects shot at a transit agent in Esmeraldas

An Esvial EP traffic control agent was killed by unknown persons after getting out of a vehicle at the bus stop on Pacífico and Guayaquil streets, in the north of the city of Esmeraldas.

According to versions of witnesses who gave the Police, the victim who was dressed as a civilian got out of the car from the El Panecillo sector after 07:00 this Friday the 6th.

The man was standing up when four unknown subjects shot him repeatedly.

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The victim was identified as Maikel García, approximately 23 years old, who lived in the Tercer Piso neighborhood and apparently was open, according to his relatives. Another person was also injured, but was stable in a sanatorium.

The motivation for this homicide would be directed or focused against the victim and at the scene of the incident, six shells percussed from a 9mm pistol were raised as evidence, said Santiago Viteri, head of the Esmeraldas police district, who was in the investigations together with Criminalistics, Dinased and Legal Medicine.

This is the second similar murder of municipal agents of Esvial EP Esmeraldas. On September 15, 2022, two subjects aboard a motorcycle committed the murder of a uniformed officer, Jairón Snayder Cabezas, while he was riding his motorcycle through the streets of Sucre and Pichincha, near the municipal market of the capital of Esmeralda.

A few days later, Jostyn CC and Michael PD, who are facing trials for the murder of the transit agent, were apprehended, reported the State Attorney General’s Office.

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Other murders in Esmeraldas

In the streets Plinio Palomino between Sucre and Libertad, they shot Jean Pierre García Arce (22 years old), who died on public roads. The causes of the murder were not determined, but there is a judicial record in 2019, according to the police report.

Relatives and friends of the deceased prevented the removal of the body and said that they were in charge of burying it. Last night the body of Quiñónez Bone (28 years old) was also found, who had been missing for approximately three days.

The abandoned corpse was located near the bridge of the Abdón Calderón compound, in the Atacames canton, south of the Esmeraldas province. Two murders also happened yesterday in the La Ceiba neighborhood, west of the city of Esmeralda.

The victims were identified as Édison Paredes Valencia (20 years old) with a bullet wound to the chest. With stab wounds and a bullet impact, they murdered an unidentified man in a street in the upper part of this same sector, after noon on Thursday the 5th.

In the Eloy Alfaro canton and the city of Esmeraldas, four brothers were murdered between the 2nd and 5th of this month, reported the Police. Early Monday morning, the Betto brothers, 38, and Cheo Benavides Rodríguez, 32, were shot in the rural parish of La Tola, in the Eloy Alfaro canton, north of the Verde Province.

That same Monday night, the brothers Álex and Jaime Noboa died in the 24 de Mayo neighborhood, south of the city of Esmeraldas. The police agents found more than ten 9 mm caliber shells. (YO)

Source: Eluniverso

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