The woman was a teacher at a school in the sector and her husband sold bicycle spare parts in a small store next to the house.
Lidia Falcones Tejada, 52, was murdered Sunday night at the Carlos Castro 2 cooperative, in central Guasmo, south of Guayaquil. The Police investigate the crime as a femicide.
It was 11:30 p.m. when the police received the alert from the doctors at the Guasmo Sur hospital, who received the victim and immediately determined that she was already dead. She received at least five stab wounds.
Colonel Ricardo Manitio, head of the Southern District of the National Police, explained that they immediately went to the victim’s house and that on the way they met relatives of the couple who were taking the husband to the same sanatorium..
The 55-year-old man, identified as David Jara, He would have attacked Lidia with a knife in the middle of an argument.
According to the first investigations, Jara was under the influence of alcohol and after attacking the mother of his children, out of jealousy, he injured himself.
Lidia was a teacher at a school in the sector and her husband sold bicycle spare parts in a small store next to the house.
Neighbors said that after injuring his wife, David left their house in a state of shock, He went back in and inflicted the injuries that caused him death.
The day before, near Guasmo, in an apartment in the Valdivia blocks, the police lifted the body of a 20-year-old girl identified as Rita Bowen.
The woman was on the bed and had blood in the nasal region, however, preliminarily no blows or injuries were detected.
Colonel Manitio reported that the night before the young woman and her boyfriend had had a party in the department and that it is not ruled out that they have consumed a prohibited substance and that they were affected by an overdose.
Bowen’s body was taken to the morgue, where an autopsy was performed. The Directorate of Violent Deaths (Dinased) of the Police until now has not given more details of these and other deaths registered during the weekend in Zone 8. (I)
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