Police officer murdered in Quevedo had requested discharge after serving more than 20 years in the institution

Quevedo

The second sergeant of the Police, Oswaldo Ramiro Yanangómez Riera, had been working in the National Police for 20 years and six months.

A month ago he had requested discharge from the police institution, and according to one of his friends, yesterday he was waiting for the order to terminate his duties for having completed his years of service as a police officer, however, he was murdered.

‘My partner was on his days off, but because of the elections all the policemen got active, that’s why today Saturday he had to report to work. He was waiting for confirmation of his discharge request because he already had more than 20 years of service in the National Police, the document was expected to be received between today or tomorrow,’ a relative of the victim said grieved.

Police sergeant murdered on a road in Quevedo

Richard Vaca, commander of zone 5, indicated that Ramiro Yanangómez Riera was traveling in his father’s truck with the intention of reaching his work in the courtyards of the Babahoyo Judicial Police.

While driving through the Quevedo exit towards the rural parish of San Carlos, he was approached by five men who were also traveling in a van.

The subjects fired four times at Yanangómez, who, wounded, managed to get out of the vehicle and get under it to cover himself with the tires and from there respond to the attack by the antisocials. They managed to escape while the police sergeant agonized to death.

The Government indicates that evidence was collected to clarify the relationship with the alleged crime of procedural fraud in the case of Júnior Roldán, leader of Los Choneros

Vaca indicated that they carry out operations and raids to be able to locate those who caused the violent death, in addition to reviewing the security cameras in the sector to obtain records of what happened.

Yanangómez lived in the San Camilo parish and was the father of three children, the oldest being 12 years old. (YO)