What happened to the 2-year-old boy found dead on a beach in Santa Marta

Last Monday, April 4, the inhabitants of Santa Marta were shocked by the discovery of the body of a 2-year-old baby on a beach located in the tourist area of Buritaca. After several days in which the minor appeared as N. N. in the morgue, the authorities reported that they found the child's father, a Bogotá citizen who recently traveled to identify his son.

Samuel Guerrero, that was the name of the minor who keeps the authorities of Santa Marta in vigil, questioning what happened to him. It should be noted that the 29-year-old man, identified as Edwin Guerrero, claims to be the father of the minor after identifying his body, but the authorities will make the information official in the coming days with the results of the DNA test. Normally one of these tests takes 45 days, but under the circumstances, the process will be accelerated to 15 days from when the test was taken on April 7.

Guerrero is sure that the body that rests in the Santa Marta morgue is that of his young son, whom he has not seen since February, as he revealed to RCN Mundo; and he clings to some photographs with the minor to support his paternity. However, what happened to little Samuel remains a mystery to the authorities and his father, since the mother does not appear.

Samuel's parents are separated, which is why they shared the care of the child according to their times and both live in Bogotá. On April 1, Edwin Guerrero arrived at his ex-partner's house to pick up his son, but he didn't find anyone. “I was concerned about my son's whereabouts and informed the authorities and only until April 6 did I receive a call from the Santa Marta Police, where they told me that there was news about a 2-year-old boy who died in this city, that's when I decided to travel to recognize the baby's body and I realized that he was my son”, he told the radio station el bogotano.

Finding the father's whereabouts was a joint effort between the National Police and the Police for Children and Adolescents, who, when comparing the information from both cases, identified that the complaint filed in Bogotá could be related to the minor they found in Santa Marta.

For now, the authorities only have as clues as to the fact what was revealed by the tourists who found the minor. According to the newspaper El Colombiano, a couple of tourists saw a small blue car on the beach, when they approached they found the baby dead; in addition, the authorities have not revealed much about the possible cause of death of the minor, but preliminary reports known to the media report possible suffocation by immersion (drowning) and that the body does not appear to show signs of violence.

It is still expected that Legal Medicine will be the entity that will release more details soon. Meanwhile, uniforms from the Prosecutor's Office and Civil Defense are advancing with tours of the beach where the minor was found to collect more testimony. Specifically, tourists found the youngest at kilometer 46 on the way to Buritaca, a sector known as Playa Bonita or Playa Linda, in the early hours of Monday, April 4.

The regional newspaper El Heraldo learned that there are versions of a supposed video from security cameras, held by the police, in which the minor can be seen in the arms of a woman, who is believed to be his mother. Edwin Guerrero told the authorities that the mother of his son responds to the name of Jenny Alexandra Higuera Casallas, whom he has not heard from since April 1 when he did not find her at home. Investigators are trying to establish whether the woman in the video is the ex-partner of the only man who has identified himself as the father of the dead minor.

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