The attack occurred around 2:00 p.m. The victims, father and son, left the house of a close friend whom they were visiting.
A 37-year-old man and his 2-year-old son died at dawn on Monday the 8th in a Guayaquil hospital, after they were shot last Sunday afternoon when they were driving a blue car on stage 5 of Much Lot, in the north of Guayaquil.
The attack occurred around 2:00 p.m. The victims, father and son, left the house of a close friend whom they were visiting.
Police presume that the hit men, who were riding two motorcycles, followed them and fired at the vehicle.
The driver lost control of the car and crashed into a home.
The residents indicated that the boy had three bullet wounds and his father an equal number of holes. Both were taken to a hospital, where doctors tried to stabilize them, however, they died hours later.
Two deaths and several wounded in three armed attacks on the afternoon of this Sunday 7 in Guayaquil and Durán
Major Édgar Pazmiño, chief of operations of the Pascuales district, reported that the father of the child does not have a criminal record.
The Police continue the investigations to find the whereabouts of those responsible for the double crime. One of the proceedings is the review of the closed circuit cameras that exist in the perimeter where the act was committed.
The family of the deceased arrived at the morgue on Monday 8 to remove the bodies. They indicated that the driver’s wife and mother of the minor were also in the car. The woman was unharmed.
Man was shot outside a church in the Guayaquil suburb
They also commented that the man worked as a baker and that they had come to the sector to visit the parents of the deceased and that two more children of the couple stayed in the home of their relatives.
According to witnesses, three men on a motorcycle shot at the family.
More violent events were recorded over the weekend
Hours before that crime, in the fifth stage of El Recreo, in Durán, the murder of a man was reported in the hitman style. The victim was driving a white vehicle.
In the area, residents were alarmed when they noticed the injured citizen inside the vehicle. A woman accompanying him cried helplessly at the violent attack. Those responsible fled.
After several minutes, uniformed officers cordoned off the area, cleared the people who came to observe the incident and began the proceedings to clarify this new violent death.
Meanwhile, in the Trinipuerto sector, in the south of Guayaquil, antisocials attacked several people who were there. Residents indicated that one of them died and that the others were taken to nearby hospitals.
At the national level there is a state of exception decreed by the President of the Republic, Guillermo Lasso in order to combat crime. Police controls are carried out with military support in certain areas of various localities of the country.
So far in 2021 there have been 560 violent deaths in Zone 8. (I)
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