Three people will face an evaluation hearing and preparatory trial for the murder of attorney Harrison Salcedo, which occurred on April 28.
Due to the change of lawyer of one of the three prosecuted for the death of Harrison Salcedo, the lawyer he represented former vice president Jorge Glas and the dejected leader of Los Choneros, José Luis Zambrano, aliases Rasquiña, a criminal judge from Pichincha decided to postpone the evaluation hearing and preparation of the trial defined for this Thursday at 09:30, in the North Judicial Complex, in Quito.
In this case, for the crime of murdering Salcedo, which occurred on the morning of April 28, they are prosecuted. Luis Iván C., Darío Gabriel S., aliases the Chinese, and Elvis Fabián C. The fiscal instruction This case began last June 1 with the arrest and filing of charges of the taxi driver Luis Iván C., 46 years old. Due to the preventive detention order he received, he was transferred to the so-called Prison 4, located in the north of Quito.
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Agents of the investigative and intelligence axes of the Police began the follow-ups immediately, when the body of Harrison Salcedo was found dead with several bullet wounds in his body inside a dark colored Ford-150 pickup truck he was driving. Upon receiving the shots, the lawyer lost control of the truck he was driving and crashed into the glass wall of a car dealership on República and Seis de Diciembre avenues, north of the city.
The Police started their investigation with preliminary data that the shots were fired from a car dark in color, that the weapon used was automatic and that the attackers They would have followed up from very early hours to the lawyer Harrison Salcedo.
The remaining defendants were arrested days later. For example, aliases the Chinese was captured the night of July 26 and was immediately linked to the case that investigates a violent death. This person would have recently been released from jail, while serving a sentence for domestic violence.
Harrison Salcedo, lawyer for former vice president Jorge Glas and the dejected leader of Los Choneros, Jorge Luis Zambrano, dies in an attack that occurred in Quito
According to the investigations carried out, experts on the telephones seized in the process indicated that aliases the Chinese received a call from a person deprived of liberty from the El Turi prison, in Cuenca, which supposedly spoke of an attempt on the lawyer’s life.
The deferral was granted to ensure due process and access to lawyers have time to organize an adequate defense strategy, as well as knowing the information that exists in the Prosecutor’s file. (I)
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