Preliminary investigations indicate that the shooting would be due to a dispute over territory. The Lizards would control the route through which drugs that contaminate ships leave.
At least three members of the Los Lagartos criminal organization would be among the fatalities of the armed attack that took place on the night of Friday the 21st in a court in the Playita del Guasmo, south of Guayaquil, and that left five dead and nine injured in total. according to the National Police.
It is believed, in a preliminary way, that the massacre would have been perpetrated by the Los Rusos gang due to a dispute over territory, according to the first investigations.
The members of Los Lagartos receive orders from the Guayaquil prison. This organization has controlled the southern part of Guasmo for years, through which the drug that contaminates the ships in the ports leaves or goes, it was indicated.
The Police are investigating whether the Los Rusos gang would also be involved in the attack on the night of Thursday the 20th, in the coop. Cristal, near La Playita, where fire was also opened on four men who were gathered outside a house. Three of them died and the fourth was saved from dying.
Facebook issued an alert and used a tool to find out if its users who live in Guasmo were okay after the shooting on a court
The Los Rusos gang is dedicated to drug trafficking and crimes against life such as hired assassins, according to police investigations that have been carried out in recent years. In various operations over the years, their captured members have also been found to have firearms in their possession.
For a decade, Los Rusos have been blamed for several murders in the south of Guayaquil. And its members have frightened, at different times, areas such as the Unión de Bananeros, in Guasmo Sur. Just as some of its members have been arrested, this gang has also renewed its ranks.
Minutes of terror, ‘hell’, in a massacre at the Playita del Guasmo
They were minutes of horror. About 20 men who landed in the Playita del Guasmo sector, south of Guayaquil, with pistols, rifles and machine guns opened fire on a sports field, where dozens of young people were gathered on the night of January 21, as is customary in this sector. Fridays.
The screams, the confusion, the running from one side to the other to try to save their lives, and the calls for help were the tone of those violent minutes that the inhabitants of this sector experienced at 9:00 p.m. on Friday, January 21. Some literally believed that it was the end of the world and described that day as infernal.
Five people were killed during an armed attack on the Playita del Guasmo, south of Guayaquil, on the night of this Friday 21
After the escape of the gunmen came other heartbreaking moments. Family and friends begged for help in the street with the bodies of their relatives. Some were wounded, bloody, but still breathing. Others were not so lucky. At the closing of this edition, there were five dead and nine wounded.
That was the most violent scene that has been recorded so far this 2022 in Guayaquil, where murders, hit men, robberies, assaults and other crimes do not stop and are recorded daily, while the population asks for quick and effective solutions and responses. in the face of this wave of insecurity.
This is known from the shooting that occurred on Friday night at the Playita del Guasmo, in the south of Guayaquil
In the first 21 days of January alone, 72 violent deaths were recorded in Zone 8, which encompasses Guayaquil, Durán and Samborondón, versus the 20 cases that occurred in 2021. And the majority, around 60, occurred in Guayaquil.
Those shot to death were identified as: Joel Enrique Fernández Medina, Milton Fabián Palma Mora, Ricardo Arturo Delgado Gilse, Juan Fernando Sangotuña Maya and Juan Carlos Mina Vernaza. Two of the deceased have criminal records for robbery, possession of weapons and drugs, the National Police said. (I)
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