The victim’s mother maintained that the attack was directed at another person.
A 35-year-old man was murdered in the Carlos Castro 2 cooperative, in central Guasmo, south of Guayaquil.
The incident occurred on Thursday night, while the now deceased shared a family moment for Three Kings Day. The victim’s mother maintained that the attack was directed at another person.
She said that the perpetrator was following another person who went into an alley, but when he realized that the door of the house where she was reunited with the family, the attacker shot her son.
The mortal victim was with her two-month-old daughter and her spouse.
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“He shot, took it and left. He stared at me, put the gun away, and left. They left (attackers). They say there was a motorcycle outside, I didn’t go out there. I went to pick up my son, who was already dying, “said Blanca Vera, mother of the now deceased, to Ecuavisa.
Ricardo Manitio, operational chief of the southern police district, mentioned that, according to the relatives, the murdered man had no criminal record.
However, he indicated that in the place where the crime took place there are problems of micro-trafficking and fighting for territories. (I)
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