The victim was also with her sister and her mother. They are hospitalized.
The sisters Jennifer (26 years old) and Nathaly Gracia (21) were walking along the sidewalk with their mother and a baby in her arms when they received several shots from firearms by subjects who were traveling on a motorcycle.
The violent act occurred in front of a food establishment in the Nuevos Horizontes Bajo neighborhood of the Nuevo Quinindé sector, via Palcien (center of the province of Esmeraldas), after 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday the 19th.
Jennifer and Nathaly were shot in the upper part of the body and in the head. Their mother suffered a bullet wound to the clavicle and the baby was grazed by a bullet. The last two are in stable condition.
In Esmeraldas, during the transfer of the coffin to the cemetery, an armed confrontation was recorded
One of the victims was taken to the Alberto Bufonni hospital in Quinindé, where his death was confirmed. The other female has a reserved prognosis in a health home in Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas.
A preliminary report from the Quinindé District National Police reported that the attack occurred after a robbery of the women.
But after 8:00 p.m. this Wednesday, the police commander (e) of the Quinindé district, Christian Haro, reported that the violent act would be related to micro-trafficking problems in the territory, according to new investigations.
The father of the victims related two men as alleged perpetrators of the act and requested their arrest. The woman’s body was transferred to the Zone 1 Forensic Center. Criminalistics agents and the National Directorate of Violent Deaths (Dinased) collected seven ballistic signs and other evidence.
Last Friday, Tito López Mora, driver of a merchant who was injured with his son, was murdered in an attempted robbery at a Quinindé cocoa store.
Shooting in Quinindé and San Lorenzo
On the morning and night of this Wednesday, shootings were also reported in the sector known as La Aldea, in the Unión y Progreso neighborhood, in Quinindé. The intention would be to attempt against the life of a citizen who managed to protect himself at home in the first incident.
The Police of San Lorenzo del Pailón, northern border of Esmeraldas, received the report of armed persons and a missing wood merchant, in the sector of the El Porvenir compound, after 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday.
Personnel from the Marine Corps and servers from the UPC of Limones (Eloy Alfaro) mobilized to verify the news in the river area of Tambillo and El Porvenir. (I)
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