On January 3, 2022, a heinous crime occurred in Huancayo. At night, Tomás Máximo Rosales Domínguez (55) was returning home when he was shot twice by hit men who had been following him. As reported by Domingo al Día, the main suspect is Rosario Echevarría Guerrero (56), who was the wife of the deceased in complicity with their daughter, Nikol Rosales (19).
Both were arrested on 6 April, but soon after they were released due to lack of evidence. Everything is due to past events, ranging from lawsuits to living expenses for her daughter to the woman's fear of losing property when she learned that her then husband was expecting a new child.
Speaking on Sunday, Tomás Rosales' sister overwhelmingly declared what happened. “Right now we feel really bad. That my niece and her mother did this to my brother,” she told Domingo al Día. The police were the ones who determined responsibility for Rosario Echevarría and her daughter, with the support of two subjects of Venezuelan nationality. Tomas' brother, Fernando Rosales, mentioned that the fight occurred because of the woman's infidelity and the constant problems at home.
“This whole lawsuit began since Rosario was once unfaithful to her. I think it was a toxic relationship, because they had problems, and even a judge ruled that he leave the house. Because of that woman's slander, my brother was taken from his home,” Fernando said.
The officers were able to identify those suspected of the crime. It would be Rosario Echevarrya Guerrero, Josue Alejandro Quinto Zarate and Willnel Luis Olivo Garrido, members of the band 'Los chamos de Marochini', who would have left Huancayo.
PROPERTY DISPUTE
The weekly Hildebrant En Sus Trece produced a report on the case, where it is revealed that the couple met in a neighborhood of La Oroya, since their respective parents worked in a mining company. The marriage took place in 1990 and months later Oshin, their first daughter, was born. There were quarrels and mutual jealousy between families. That tension grew when Nikol Rosales was born in 2002 — accused with his mother of organizing the murder of his father. At that time, it was decided to build a building in Huancayo.
The oldest daughter moved to the city to study psychology and Rosario left with her taking the younger one. Tomás continued to work at the mine until 2009, when the Doe Run company closed.
The land already had four floors of 300 m2 in El Tambo, where the family lived on the second floor and on the roof, where Telefónica installed an antenna in exchange for an annual income. “With that income he was calm,” Richard López, Tomas' friend, told Peruvian weekly newspaper.
The relationship deteriorated to the point that Rosario Echevarría denounced Tomás Rosales for physical and psychological violence. Both cases were filed since she never presented herself to the legal doctor. But it was enough for Rosales to leave the family home by court order.
The weekly said that Tomás sought to move on with his life by having a new partner, while his still wife and daughter rented the house to Venezuelan citizens, where one of them began an affair with Rosario and his nephew began a relationship with the daughter. Despite that, Rosales wanted to escape those problems and start from scratch.
However, the trigger was when Rosario learned that her husband's new partner was going to give birth to a baby, which harms inheritance property rights. That, despite having sought a way to get him away from Nikole, he was not going to allow it.
“Logically, with the death of the victim, the legitimate heirs according to marital filiation are the wife and children,” PNP Colonel Víctor Revodero, head of the Dirincri Homicide Division, told Domingo a Día.
THE DAY OF THE MURDER
Thus, on January 3 of this year, Tomás Rosales left his home to commission his lawyer, Mery Galarza, who helped him in the trials against him and in employment opportunities. Security cameras recorded the moments when a vehicle posing as a taxi followed it closely next to a motorcycle where the hit men were who did not wait for the red car to park to fire the headshots. Tomás Rosales died on the spot.
Criminal investigation officers were alerted to an incident at the Sol de Oro cooperative, behind Franklin Rooslvelt University. It was the murder of Tomás Rosales, who was lying in the driver's seat, in an AHI-161 van.
“The occupants of which were two citizens of Venezuelan nationality, one of them being the executor, the shooter who descends from this minor vehicle and fired five shots with a firearm that hit the victim,” explained the head of the Dirincri Homicide Division.
Along these lines, her family pointed out that Rosario constantly threatened her husband. “I always wanted to throw him out of the house anyway and he wanted to keep everything. That day he was with his lawyer, who gave him the news that he had almost won the process almost 100% to ask for divorce and division of property at 50%,” a family member told Domingo al Día.
After the investigations, the police suspected Rosario Echevarría and her daughter Nikol Rosales. The persons involved were arrested on April 6, but there was not enough evidence to blame them as they had deleted WhatsApp conversations with the hit men.
However, the court ruled that the investigations remain at large. Venezuelans Willnel Olivo Garrido (32) and Josué Quinto Zárate (25), perpetrators of the crime, are now fugitives from justice. The Rosales family is waiting for justice to try who they consider to be responsible for many problems for many years and the main author of the crime.
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