In Guayaquil, two women were shot while drinking in the south. They both managed to survive. There were two other deaths and more than a dozen injured.
Two women were shot on the night of this Saturday, January 1, at the Santiaguito Roldós cooperative, in the south of Guayaquil. The victims are a 45-year-old woman, identified as Marcia S., and her daughter-in-law Joselyn R., 23. Both were having sex outside their home when four men arrived on two motorcycles and shot them.
Next to the house of the victims, his neighbors had installed a swimming pool that prevented the passage of patrol cars, so the police who entered the sector had problems to analyze the crime scene, where six ballistic evidence was finally raised.
This Sunday morning the uniformed men insisted to the owners of the pool that it be removed.
The Police reported that the injured women were taken by their relatives to the Guasmo hospital, where they are recovering. Marcia S. was the most affected. The woman was shot in the pelvis and underwent surgery at dawn. Marcia’s daughter-in-law was shot in the back. The young woman recovers.
None of them have a criminal record, however, the agents are investigating whether they are involved in the sale of drugs, a problem in the sector.
Hours after this event, in the Nueva Prosperina cooperative, a man was shot and killed.
The victim was in the street when the police from the sector arrived after an alert from the neighbors. A relative identified the deceased as Victor Israel Erazo, 27, who has no criminal record.
According to witnesses, two men shot him and then fled on foot.
This same morning Julio César J., 53, was also shot outside his home. It happened at 45 and El Oro when he arrived from a wake at dawn this Sunday.
According to police reports, a motor vehicle approached the victim’s house and was shot. The four men fled in the tricimoto, while Julio César J. was transferred to a nearby hospital.
He received a single shot that entered through the neck and exited through the back. At the moment he is still hospitalized.
In 18 and K Carlos Alfredo O., 28, was shot while drinking at a public dance hall in the sector.
The victim, who has no criminal record, was taken to a hospital in the sector where he is treated for a shot in the shoulder. Doctors indicated that he is stable.
Aron A., 19, arrived at the same hospital in the suburb at 05:00, shot in the right foot. He informed the uniformed officers that at 23 and N he was intercepted by two men on a motorcycle who pointed a gun at him to rob him. When the victim tried to flee from the criminals, he was shot. The motorcyclists fled.
This Sunday morning, José Cedeño died in a Guayaquil hospital after being in a coma since the early hours of January 1 after the beating he would have received by several close associates.
His relatives commented that Cedeño lived in Mapsingue, but he went to burn the puppet with his partner’s family in the suburb. There, when they were celebrating the beginning of the year, supposedly a fight broke out and he was beaten by several men.
But the violent events have not only occurred in Guayaquil. At the national level, as of the morning of January 2, 9 violent deaths had been reported; three cases occurred in El Oro, two in Guayas, one in Cañar, one in Los Ríos, another in Manabí and a violent death was also reported in one of the country’s prisons.
Of the three violent deaths registered in El Oro, it is known that two cases occurred in the border area of Huaquillas, where they killed Wilmer Cevallos, 36, at dawn on January 1. In the afternoon, Diego Ariel Bravo was shot dead. He was shot five times and died at the local hospital.
Juan Carlos Sabando Zambrano, 39, is the first victim of a hitman from Manabí. He was killed with 14 shots at 04:00 on January 1, on the road that connects the community of Palo Amarillo with that of Río Canoa, in the Canoa parish. Sabando was driving his car with his wife and son when two men on a motorcycle shot him.
The inmate who died on January 1 is Santiago Velásquez, who received several stab wounds in the abdomen and chest, when a fight broke out in the medium-security pavilion of the Bellavista Social Rehabilitation Center, in Santo Domingo de los Colorados, in Tsáchila province. (I)
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