Was it a triple murder-suicide? Who was the deputy found dead along with his mother, sister and 7-year-old nephew?

The death did not stop on Tuesday, September 26, in a house in Maracay, Aragua State, Venezuela. The bullets were responsible for silencing four lives.

What happened is being treated as a triple murder-suicide. According to the preliminary investigation, the perpetrator is said to have been José Vivas Duque, a regional deputy and former chairman of the Copei Party in Aragua. The victims were his mother, his sister and his cousin. This one was only 7 years old.

The final word will be the researchers of the Scientific Police.

A day before this tragedy, the deputy “had reported on his Facebook account that Venezuelan judicial authorities did not expedite an alleged case of sexual abuse of his cousin,” El Estímulo reported.

For that crime, he tearfully pointed to the minor’s father, who rejected the accusation. She mourned the death of her son, “a sweet boy,” as she described him in a video.

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They used a gun

The hypothesis used is that these people would have died at the hands of the deputy, who would then have committed suicide,” Crónica Uno published.

The victims were identified in his networks by journalist Javier Ignacio Mayorca as Maricela Duque Guédez (74), María de los Ángeles Vivas Duque (30) and Jhoan Paolo Ronso Vivas (7).

In the home, at the foot of Razetti Street, in Maracay, Aragua state, they found the four bodies, Mayorca said.

Initial inspection of the scene indicates that the lawmaker allegedly killed his family members with a 25-caliber Phoenix Arms pistol and committed suicide.

Javier Ignacio Mayorca

The deputy’s complaint about the ex-brother-in-law

Vivas Duque had recently left the presidency of the Copei Party in Aragua.

When this tragedy became known, a complaint arose that was attributed to José Vivas Duque. On his Facebook account he wrote: “In Venezuela, fighting for justice is impossible. My cousin was raped in December 2022 by his father, Yohan Ronso Varanese″ and the media highlights, such as La Nación, which showed a photo of the official document with the official number: 1.842-2023, sent to Interpol.

According to Vivas Duque, “they issued the arrest warrant on January 12, 2023, he fled the country that same day and almost a year later they brought the file to Caracas in his favor.”

The Aragua delegate said: “We have begged for justice, we have gone everywhere and they don’t pay attention to us because money seems to be the most important thing.” He pointed to a prosecutor “suspending” Interpol’s red alert, La Nación reported.

The message attributed to Vivas ends with the words: “God, forgive me.”

On social networks, Jeanfreddy Gutiérrez Torres stated on Tuesday, September 26: “I am very sorry for the news about José Vivas Duque and his family, it is very sad. I shared political spaces with him in Maracay. Since I don’t read it anywhere: yesterday (Monday) José published with pain in his heart that the rape of his cousin would go unpunished.”

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A good friend of Deputy José Vivas speaks

Speaking to El Pitazo, a close friend of the Aragua parliamentarian said: “He always loved his family. He had no reason to lash out at her. He didn’t do it.”

He believes Vivas was incapable of doing something so painful. “We are all surprised at what happened and we ask for respect for José and his immediate environment,” the aforementioned media publish.

According to Crónica Uno, “Vivas participated in the presidential campaigns of Henrique Capriles Radonski and César Pérez Vivas.”

Last August, “he resigned as president of Copei to support Pérez Vivas in the primaries.”

My son was a sweet boy: Yohan Ronso

The man designated by Deputy Vivas Duque testified in a video and rejected his former brother-in-law’s accusation.

“They killed my son,” said Yohan Ronso. He points out that the accusation (about abuse) is false and that it was made by his ex-partner and his brother (the deputy).

“I hold the prosecutors of Maracay responsible for not investigating the false accusations made against me by María de los Ángeles Vivas and José Vivas, the murderer of my son today. “I want justice for my son.”

The Stimulus added that, according to Ronso, “his son’s file was transferred from Maracay to the Public Prosecutor of Caracas and the child had to testify.”

“He would tell the truth, that his father is good,” he said. For Ronso, his son was “a sweet, loving, innocent child (…)”.

This is a very strong and sensitive case at the same time because a child under the age of 7 is central.

The journalist Mayorca, who broke the news, published on his X network that “Vivas Duque was in a depressive state due to domestic problems and an investigation by the Public Prosecutor’s Office.” (JO)