Tattoo shop attack: Victim was a pool hall owner who was shot

Authorities began to unravel the case of the double murder committed on Thursday, October 26, around 9 p.m. in a tattoo parlor with the business name ‘Holy Im Tatto’, located at Carrera 43 and Calle 76, in the north. Barranquilla.

After identifying the fatal victims of the incident as Nicolás Manuel Caballero Orozco, 36, and Yoiner Alexander Almanza Rivera, 24, investigators focused on determining the reasons for the criminal attack and found a link between one of the dead men and previously committed criminal offenses. actions.

In this sense, the authorities established that Nicolás Caballero Orozco was the manager of a billiard hall (Órbita), located on the boulevard of the Simón Bolívar district, which had recently been the target of attacks on its facade, apparently due to extortion issues.

Such a case occurred last Wednesday, September 20, at the company located at 19th Street No. 3D -34, when persons on a motorcycle arrived at the entrance of the building and shot several times at the facade around 1:40 p.m.

In addition, it was learned through judicial sources that the owners of that affected billiard hall had been victims of extortion since the beginning of 2023 by Dionisio Frías Castillo, alias Gordo 40, and César Alberto Molina Chávez, alias Checho 40, the man He was killed after the gunshot attack in the Ara Store facilities, in the Ciudad Jardín neighborhood, the same event in which the security guard of the establishment was murdered.

Let’s not forget that, according to police, Molina Chávez was also a trusted man of Digno Palomino Rodríguez and was supposedly on the mission to take care of his mother. And that the entire trail of deaths in recent days, including the Malambo massacre and the Soledad billiard pool, has been a response to his murder.