An unfortunate case occurred on the followingnoon of this December 25 in the city of Neiva, Huila. A young soccer player, only 16 years old, was killed with a firearm by two hit men. The authorities already have a whole device to identify those responsible for this crime that has dismayed the inhabitants of this area of the country.
The young man was identified as 16-year-old Miguel Ángel Rivera, who was killed by hit men while riding a motorcycle with one of his friends along Inés García de Durán avenue, in Neiva. It was learned that the victim had belonged to several soccer clubs in the city.
Despite the fact that he was immediately transferred to the Hernando Moncaleano Perdomo University Hospital, unfortunately he lost his life minutes later. One of his colleagues who was injured is already out of danger.
The authorities are currently carrying out the corresponding investigations in order to collect evidence through security cameras and other means in order to determine the causes of the crime, as well as capture the perpetrators. According to the first versions, it would be a possible settling of scores for criminal combos in the area.
It should be remembered that, on December 20, a judge with a guarantee control function in Huila issued an arrest warrant in the last few hours once morest three men accused of belonging to the Los Nocturnos gang, dedicated to the theft of residences in commune 10 of the city of Neiva.
The defendants were identified as Eduar Caviedes Bastidas, presumed leader and transporter; John Freddy Steven Manios Pérez and Javier Mauricio González Cáceres. The subjects allegedly robbed residences at midnight or early morning and later fled in a taxi.
According to the Prosecutor’s Office, between February and August of this year, six people were victims of thefts in the Gualanday, Los Colores, Pastrana, Samán and La Floresta neighborhoods. “There they appropriated laptops, computers, tablets, cash, watches, wallets, among other belongings.”indicated the accusing body.
Hitmen murdered a woman and a child in Pitalito, Huila; they were shot in their own home
A woman and a child were murdered by hitmen who were moving on a motorcycle, in the municipality of Pitalito, Huila, on the night of December 20. WEEK learned that one of the criminals entered the house where the victims were, located in the Madelena neighborhood, and shot them with a firearm, while the other waited outside with the motorcycle running to flee as soon as the murders were committed.
And indeed so it happened, the murderers fled in an unknown direction following ending the life of the mother and child. About the woman it was learned that she died at the scene and regarding the minor it transpired that he managed to be taken to a care center where her death occurred.
The murdered woman responded to the name of Kelly Yohana Cárdenas Ramírez. The identity of the finalized minor, who would have been 13 years old, was not revealed by the authorities. Experts from the CTI of the Prosecutor’s Office inspected the crime scene and, as this medium learned, collected abundant material that might quickly lead to the alleged murderers, who in fact would have already been identified.
Some versions state that a soldier of the National Army would be the current partner of Cárdenas and the father of the dead minor, and that the crimes would have overtones of passion.
However, the Huila Police Department has not confirmed these hypotheses and limited itself to saying that it is carrying out the pertinent investigations to find those responsible and clarify the homicides.
The murders have caused shock in the department and nationally. Former President Álvaro Uribe even spoke regarding it: “Community reports: the wife and her son of a professional soldier in Pitalito, Huila, were assassinated. The criminal is generally not seduced by benevolence, but terrified by authority.