The family of Elkin David Correa Sandoval, the bank security supervisor who was killed in the center of Medellín by a van that A drunken young woman was driving will carry out this Saturday, March 12, a sit-in to ask for justice for the death of the 40-year-old man.
The manifestation will start at 5:00 pm on Calle 50 with Carrera 45, downtown Medellín, at the same place of the accident, and it was organized by the relatives and friends of the victim, who still feel that the sanction for the cause of his death has been lax or insufficient, since it ended the life of a father of a family and the head of a household made up of five children, he and his wife.
This is because despite the violence of the run over, the woman who caused the tragedy was released and, as it turned out, his pass was suspended for three years and a fine of close to six million pesos was imposed on him, which, according to Elkin David’s relatives, is a derisory sanction not in keeping with the seriousness of his action.
In an interview granted to EL COLOMBIANO, Yanet Valencia, the victim’s wife, stated that the driver’s act was irresponsible that cut the threads of a happy home that was struggling to get ahead and the woman must go to jail and pay for what What did.
“We are fighting for justice with my husbandthe pain she caused is very great and we want her to go to jail, ”says Yanet, who had been living in union with Elkin David for thirteen years, whom she officially married in 2020.
He assures that they have already requested permission for the sit-in, which includes a march that will go to the park of Las Luces (in front of La Alpujarra) and once there, a wake will be held to honor the memory of your spouse.
The accident in which her husband died was recorded on video and went viral due to the violence with which the run over occurred. The images show that Elkin David was standing next to his motorcycle and the truck, which arrives at high speed, takes him in front, he is trapped in the front and is dragged several meters until the vehicle collides with a bus that was crossing the traffic light at that time.
The pictures show that he remains lying on the floor while the driver gets out of the truck, which apparently was not his property, and tries to escape without stopping to help his victim. The same community of the sector detains her while the authorities arrive. The accident occurred on Saturday, February 26 at 7:20 in the morning at a time when Elkin David was already working.
The report that was revealed to the media says that Bottles of liquor were found in the vehicle. and when performing the breathalyzer test, it gave grade one, for which his driver’s license was temporarily suspended.
Yanet says that the investigation is at that point, that there has been no hearing and she fears that this case will go unpunished, as happens with many similar events in the country when people killed by drunk drivers die and they do not even go to jail. He insists that he will fight because, in his case, there will be no impunity.
