Santa Marta massacre: they allegedly mistook the victim for a Pachenca chief

The civil authorities of Magdalena and the Metropolitan Police of Santa Marta offered up to 30 million pesos for information on the perpetrators of the collective murder that took place in the early hours of Monday, October 2, in the village of ‘Ojo de Aguaְ’, a rural area. area from the nearby capital to the town of Gaira, where two men and a woman were killed.

On the same day of the attack, the governor of Magdalena, Carlos Caicedo Omar, and the mayor of Santa Marta, Virna Johnson Salcedo, president of an extraordinary security council, were attended by General Carlos Rojas, director of the National Police Headquarters. Director of the Public Prosecution Service of Magdalena, Jhon Encinales.

During this meeting, some measures were taken, such as the announcement of the reward for information about the perpetrators of the attack, and in addition, some hypotheses about what happened in the hut on the Teyuna trail were discussed with the authorities.

It should be noted that Manuel Alejandro Vera Cabarcas, 32 years old and known by the nickname “Cacha”, due to his birth in the city of Pereira, stayed in place with the Samarian psychologist Andrea Trujillo Reyes and Elkin Ríos Osorio, a native of Medellín.

The three were sharing with other people when armed individuals, apparently with guns, opened fire in the locality around 3.15am, causing complete chaos.

Vera Cabarcas’ lifeless body apparently floated in a pool. That of Andrea Trujillo next to some chairs and a plastic table, and the body of Ríos Osorio about 150 meters from the first 2 bodies.

Supposedly the attack was against Vera Cabarcas, but one version circulating is that the criminals mistook the individual for a member of the Peasant Self-Defense Forces of the Sierra Nevada, also known as ‘Los Pachenchas’.

Governor Caicedo specifically pointed out that the criminal incursion was ordered by the Clan del Golfo, the other criminal group trying to invade and dominate the territory controlled for decades by the men of the Sierra.




Source: El heraldo

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