They offer up to $20 million in reward for information on the murderers of a minor in Cali

The Cali Metropolitan Police is offering a reward of up to 20 million pesos for information that would allow us to find the whereabouts of two criminals who broke into a pharmacy in the Valle del Lili neighborhood and murdered a child under 15 years of age.

This was viralized through a video on social networks, where you can see the moment when a thief entered a commercial establishment and intimidated a customer who was inside, after a struggle, shot him in the abdomen and fled the site with his accomplice.

According to the first versions, the victim identified as Edward Pedroza Romero, was reportedly killed by a bullet, in the middle of a robbery at a commercial establishment in the Aguablanca District.

The minor's family claimed that the young man had gone to the store to run an errand to his mother, when he was hit by the gunshot.

For his part, Colonel William Quintero spoke assuring that the authorities arrived at the scene to collect the evidentiary material and begin the search for the alleged criminals.

After checking the security cameras of the commercial premises, William assured that it was possible to verify that the men were mobilizing on a motorcycle.

The Mayor's Office and the Police offered a reward of up to 20 million pesos for information that would allow the capture of this person's murder and bring them to justice.

The request was made by the Secretary of Security and Justice, Carlos Soler Parra, who indicated the levels of overpopulation in police stations are between 133% and 2,040%, according to a recent alert issued by the Attorney General's Office and the Office of the Ombudsman. “Currently, 2,026 men and 145 women are in a situation of overcrowding in temporary detention centers, a situation that does not guarantee the minimum of fundamental rights for these people,” said the secretary.

Soler made the request in a meeting with representatives of the Ministries of the Interior, Justice, Defence, the Public Prosecutor's Office, the National Penitentiary and Prison Institute (INPEC), the Prison and Prison Services Unit (Uspec), Asocapitales, the Metropolitan Police and human rights guarantors. “We sat down to talk why, due to legal issues, the 36 hours to be (detained) in police stations became six months and a year,” the official commented.

According to the Secretariat, the state of emergency is intended to provide a short-term solution to the situation affecting persons deprived of their liberty. “We have looked for a route to find a solution,” Soler said. We find it in Law 1709 of 2008 (...) which says that the director of Inpec may declare, with a prior request, a penitentiary and prison emergency due to severe overcrowding”.

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