On Good Friday, in Aguachica, south of Cesar, a patrolman of the Metropolitan Police died from a machete that he received in the head, while he was attending a family quarrel.
The incident was reported in the Villa Paraguay neighborhood, where a surveillance patrol arrived to attend to the report of a couple's quarrel. However, the uniformed men were received by a machete by a man identified as Ezequiel Pedraza García, 22 years old.
According to the authorities, the police were alerted to a stab fight, and, when they were in the proceedings, they were attacked with a machete.
Second Lieutenant Jesús Barón tried to neutralize the aggressor with his equipment weapon, shooting him, but he managed to hit him with a machete in the arm.
The inhabitants of the sector intervened to arrest Pedraza, while police reinforcements arrived, managing to capture the subject.
Patrolman Jonny Alfredo Contreras Cruz was transferred seriously injured to a healthcare center where he died; his colleague remains under medical assistance.
The alleged aggressor, injured in the middle of the police procedure, was captured and will respond to the Attorney General's Office with the full weight of the Citizen Security Act.
This is another act of intolerance with a tragic toll in the department of Cesar. The authorities have insisted on the peaceful resolution of conflicts in order to avoid cases of regret.
The first case was reported in the morning, when in the village of La Playa the lifeless body of a 30-year-old woman, identified as Albanis Del Carmen Báez, was found by the community.
According to the preliminary report of the authorities, the residents of the deceased said that the woman had a strong argument with her romantic partner, who apparently took a knife and attacked the woman until she took her life. Although the woman was eventually transferred to a medical center, where health professionals confirmed her death.
Ana Baez, the victim's sister, told Caracol Radio that “they started arguing and he took a knife and assaulted her. She suffers from anemia and she couldn't bear the wound and died.” For his part, the alleged femicide was captured and taken to the URI of the Prosecutor's Office for prosecution; the authorities indicated that the man already had court records for personal injuries in 2010. General Luis Carlos Hernández, commander of the Barranquilla Police, explained that “this subject will be brought before the competent authority for the crime of aggravated femicide.”
The woman was originally from Maracaibo, Zulia state in Venezuela, and the romantic partner who would be responsible for her death was identified as José Antonio Martínez Viloria, 44, a native of Sincelejo, Sucre. According to local media, the discussion took place because the woman sent her five children to see the biological father; children aged 2, 4, 6, 8 and 12 were left without their mother.
On the other hand, hours later, in the metropolitan area of Barranquilla, a woman was killed with a firearm. The events took place in the Altos de Belén neighborhood, where they found the victim who was identified as Aurora Sánchez Bauza, 34 years old.
Authorities stated that, in this case, the woman was intercepted by armed men on a motorcycle, who shot her five times. According to witnesses, Sanchez was wearing a black sweater, blue jeans and carrying a small pink bag. After the attack, the woman was left with a disfigured face in the face of bullet wounds.
With these cases of femicide in the last 24 hours, so far this year there have been six cases of femicide in the department of Atlántico. At the end of March, the death of Yasli Carolina Ortega Bastida, who was also stabbed by her romantic partner after a fight, was reported in the Las Americas neighborhood. For this femicide, William Hernando Molina Soto, the victim's romantic partner, was captured.
According to testimonies from relatives, neighbors and witnesses, the man constantly abused the 26-year-old woman and repeatedly threatened her with death. The last assault he received ended his life while his children watched the scene and did not stop crying when they saw how their father murdered their mother.
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