They riddled a couple who were talking in a car in Nueva Prosperina; hours later they shot a motorized

In the last few hours, two attacks by hitmen have been reported in a neighborhood of the Horizontes del Fortín cooperative, in the Nueva Prosperina district, the most conflictive nationwide, which closed 2022 with 373 murders and that the first half of 2023 has already about 30 cases.

The first attack occurred in the early hours of this Saturday, January 14, when a man and a woman were talking inside a vehicle parked on top of a hill.

According to witnesses, another wine-colored car arrived in the sector and from there they fired at the vehicle where the victims were staying.

The injured driver tried to escape and managed to get out of the car, but when he tried to enter a house he was hit by the gunmen and shot several times in the head.

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The man was identified as Luis Francisco Rodríguez Martínez, 34, who has a record in 2022 for homicide and possession of weapons.

The woman accompanying him is Rina V. She was shot and taken to a hospital. According to the Police, the 22-year-old has no criminal record.

At the crime scene, the agents collected various evidence and transferred the victim’s car to the Crime Laboratory.

Hours later, at 1:00 p.m., another murder was reported in the same area. A man who was riding a motorcycle was shot when he was going up a hill.

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Criminalistics agents arrived at the site to raise evidence. Investigators are investigating whether both cases have any relationship.

The man on the motorcycle has not yet been identified, but it would be a linear motorcycle driver in his 30s. From another motorcycle they shot him in the head. The body was taken to the morgue.

At least eight murders have been reported in Zone 8 between Friday and Saturday. (YO)