The Prosecutor’s Office initiated the pertinent investigations to try to establish clearly what happened to the director of legal Medicine of North of Santander, Emel Palacio Montagutwho died in a motel room in the neighborhood La Parada, from Villa del Rosario, according to the newspaper La Opinion, from Cúcuta.
The place where the events occurred was cordoned off by the authorities, who are now carrying out the investigations of the case, to find the details that lead to the reasons for the events.
The name of the place where the director of Legal Medicine was found has not yet been revealed, but it is known that he was in the place, in the company of a woman.
The first theories indicate that the director of legal medicine would have died of a heart attack, which can be confirmed following the forensic evaluations.
The Cúcuta metropolitan patrols were activated as soon as they received information regarding what happened at the scene. Of course, the first suspicions of the authorities were those of a possible homicide, a hypothesis that was distorted as they made the inquiries.
Palacio, in addition to directing the department’s Legal Medicine unit, worked as a private physician, concentrating on alternative therapies, mainly related to pain relief.
In recent months, the occurrence of cases such as that of Emel Palacio, who, even without completing the investigations by the authorities, has been suspected of death by heart attack.
The Prosecutor’s Office and the CTI (Technical Investigation Corps) are at the scene, asking pertinent questions to the motel employees.
The forensic search begins by investigating the time that Palacio entered the place and under what conditions, in addition to the one already known, which is that of the company of a woman. Similarly, forensic experts will look for details in the autopsy, so that doubts regarding the cause of death can be cleared up.
As soon as the results come out, the authorities told the media, they will release the information.
SEMANA consulted several doctors regarding the possible causes that lead a healthy person to die in events such as the one that occurred at the motel in Norte de Santander. In response, they said that, despite being young people, as in this case, there might be unknown cardiovascular diseases. Even more so, if, as in this fact, the person held a position with a high level of stress, such as directing a Legal Medicine Unit.