The attacks directed at adults are linked to the sale of drugs and robberies, according to the National Police.
Traces of blood on the sidewalk and curb were evident until yesterday morning. Outside a house located in the Voluntad de Dios sector, north of Guayaquil, a woman and her two underage nephews (boy and girl) were attacked by men who were mobilizing on a motorcycle on Wednesday night.
The 5-year-old boy was shot in the head and although he was transferred to the Francisco de Ycaza Bustamante hospital, shortly before midnight the doctors confirmed his death. The 13-year-old girl, cousin of the deceased, stayed until yesterday afternoon in that health home with a reserved prognosis.
According to preliminary versions, the attack was directed at the 41-year-old woman, who runs a food business. She was also wounded, but the bullets did not compromise vital organs and she remained stable until yesterday at the Luis Vernaza hospital, of the Guayaquil Board of Charity.
Police apprehend a man involved in an assault on an ice cream parlor in the Centenario neighborhood, south of Guayaquil, in which a child under 11 years old died
Giovanny Naranjo, Florida district police chief, mentioned that the woman was allegedly a drug dealer and the place served as a front for this crime.
Hence, the two minors are collateral victims, a situation that in the last quarter of the year has occurred in Guayaquil and in other towns in the country such as the Santa Ana canton, in Manabí.
Children killed or injured in the middle of shootings cause concern among citizens. The attacks have been registered during the state of emergency in force in the provinces of El Oro, Guayas, Santa Elena, Manabí, Los Ríos, Esmeraldas, Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas, Pichincha and Sucumbíos.
This week, on Tuesday the 14th, a 12-year-old boy was murdered in Posorja, a rural parish of Guayaquil, in the Quito neighborhood. The victim was sitting on the sidewalk playing with her cell phone near a group of people.
Two motorists came to shoot them and during the incident the minor was hit by a bullet at the neck. Although the boy advanced a few meters, he fell unconscious and died on the spot.
In Posorja, the inhabitants said that there is a dispute over territory for drug trafficking between the Los Choneros and Los Tiguerones gangs.
Only in Zone 8 (Guayaquil, Durán and Samborondón) so far this year there are more than 620 violent deaths, more than double the crimes registered during 2020.
In another attack on the night of November 25, in southern Guasmo, a 10-year-old boy was shot in the middle of a police pursuit, while walking with his mother through the Juan Péndola cooperative.
The boy’s mother said that they had to move away to avoid being run over by a white truck that was being pursued by two armed policemen.
The minor was first taken to the Guasmo Hospital, then he was transferred to the Francisco de Ycaza Bustamante, where it was determined that the bullet grazed his buttock.
That same day, in the Santa Ana canton, Manabí province, another 8-year-old minor was less fortunate and died after receiving several bullet wounds inside a vehicle. During the attack, an adult person who was moving with the child was injured.
On Sunday, November 7, a boy was murdered along with his father in the Mucho Lote sector. The victims were being transported in a car when they were shot by men on a motorcycle.
Child was shot and killed while moving in a vehicle in Santa Ana, Manabi province
According to the Police, the man did not have a criminal record, he was a baker. Also in the car was the driver’s wife and mother of the minor, who was unharmed.
An 11-year-old boy died on October 17 when he was hit with projectiles in a bullet junction between a policeman and antisocials who entered to rob an ice cream parlor located in the Centenario neighborhood, south of Guayaquil.
At the end of November, the Police apprehended a man implicated in this crime that caused a commotion in the Main Port and in the country. (I)
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