A subject led a double life in Colombia and was murdered when he was caught committing a crime. They knew him under the alias “El Loco Ronald”.
The two lives were diametrically opposed: “in Barranquilla he preached and in Villavicencio he stole.” This is what El Universal headlined when it reported that “the thief killed in the middle of the robbery was a church pastor.”
Yes, as you read it: on your second work front he defended himself as an evangelical preacher and that is why he has made such an impression inside and outside Villavicencio and Barranquilla.
#Internationals | Ronald “El Loco” Acuña, who was shot dead while robbing a securities vehicle at the Viva shopping center in Villavicencio, also worked as an evangelical pastor in Barranquilla, his hometown. #30Dec #Colombia – Time pic.twitter.com/py8dgq5K47
— Llanero Digital (@LlaneroDigitalV) December 30, 2023
Robbery in Villavicencio
In that municipality of the Department of Meta, alias “El Loco Ronald” was caught together with other nationals “armed when they intercepted a truck with valuables, outside the Viva shopping center,” published El País.
His name was Ronald Acuña and “the attack took place when the workers were collecting a sum of money, so the security members responded immediately and an exchange of gunfire started on the scene.”
Acuna dared. To steal the securities car and try to deceive its drivers, he dressed up as a state police officer.
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Criminal history of “Crazy Ronald”
The group of thieves tried to steal the truck full of cash on December 28, 2023, Infobae indicated, noting that there were four attackers.
Only Ronald Acuña fell dead in the crossfire. In the shooting, “one of the company’s employees was killed.” TVS securities transporter who guarded the securities car,” in Villavicencio.
Police indicated that Acuña “was part of a criminal structure in Barranquilla, he was known by the alias ‘Crazy Ronald’, he had a house as a prison and an arrest warrant for theft,” El País published, citing Noticias RCN.
The man was apparently serving a sentence for aggravated robbery with house arrest in Barranquilla, at the time the events took place in the capital Meta, El Tiempo reported.
They also linked him to a double murder in Barranquilla, the Colombian press said. This double crime, El Universal noted, was committed in 2020.
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Thief and shepherd in Barranquilla
The news of Acuña’s death came as a shock to some people, as the man was known in Barranquilla as an evangelical preacher.
After he was killed, a video of him preaching went viral. Behind it stands someone else who responds to Acuña’s words: amen, amen.
El Universal noted that “El Loco Ronald” appeared “in Barranquilla, to his friends and acquaintances as ‘Varón de Cristo’.”
Ronald Acuña, known as “El Loco Acuña”, who worked as a pastor of a church in Colombia, was murdered during a stock market robbery in Villavicencio. pic.twitter.com/imSU31dS7P
— @luisquintero21.oficial (@luisquintero21) December 31, 2023
They express their opinions on social networks
Nelita Mercado: “God is not mocked. “There are the consequences.”
Miguel Melo: “God forgive him…”
Yolanda Urrego: “What a degradation of filth… society.”
Luz Zamora: “Lots of camouflaged sheep in the churches.”
Maria Rosa Ramirez: “It is because of people like him that many people speak badly about our gospel, a bad testimony, how sad to hear this news, they will have to give an account to Father God.”
(JO)
Source: Eluniverso

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