On the morning of May 10, the honeymoon of Paraguayan prosecutor Marcelo Pecci and his wife, Claudia Aguilera, turned into a nightmare.
The couple was in the Colombian Caribbean celebrating their union and had just announced on social networks that they would be parents, when two gunmen on a jet ski shot Pecci.
Aguilera, as expected, is devastated, but the journalist agreed to talk to one of her co-workers to tell him what happened that fateful morning.
The journalist from Unicanalsaid that the woman is still very scared by everything that happened and that she does not feel ready to give statements.
However, Pecci’s wife confirmed that the assassin who shot her husband is the same as the one in the images released by the Colombian authorities, in which he is seen wearing a hat and glasses.
“He’s the one who fired the gun. That dark-skinned man, one meter seventy-eight, who has the hat, of a very thin physical complexion, but with very marked muscles (she described) extended his arm directly towards the prosecutor Marcelo Pecci, “said the reporter, according to his conversation with Aguilera.
The portrait the woman is talking regarding is the one drawn by the authorities in Colombia. General Jorge Luis Vargas was the one who shared the image on their social networks and confirmed that a reward of 2,000 million pesos is offered for whoever delivers information on those involved in the crime.
It all happened in more than 10 minutes
The face revealed by the authorities coincides with that of a subject who was in a jet ski rental on the morning of the crime.
The woman also spoke with her colleague regarding how she experienced the moment of murder. She explained that that morning, since it was their last day of their honeymoon, they spent some time on the beach. Just when Marcelo Pecci returned from walking along the seashore, he was approached by the men on the jet ski.
«When 11:00 am arrived from Colombia, he had stopped as if to walk on the sea a little bit. Upon returning, he shook the dirt off him with the towel and, at that moment, the attack occurred. Everything was very fast, “said Aguilera’s colleague.
In addition, he specified that the murderer fired the weapon three times, one shot was in the neck, another to the side and another to flee. However, she explains that she did not understand what had happened because the shots were not loud, which made her think that it was a joke or a show for tourists.
“He falls to the ground. She turns her gaze back to the man who was fleeing -because it was a bit difficult for her to understand everything that was happening- and the people tried in one way or another to react because she heard that many said: ‘Catch them, catch them’, and for That’s why the man with the gun fired once more to cover the escape,” he said.
According to Aguilar’s testimony, everything happened in a fraction of 13 to 15 minutes. And he stressed that: “They (the assassins) went straight to him, they did not look at me,” even though he was a very short distance from Pecci.
Continuing investigation following prosecutor’s murder.
???? Spoken portrait of suspected perpetrators already led to important clues.
The assassins, in less than 13 minutes, prepared the crime, carried it out and fled.#NoticieroCentral???? pic.twitter.com/gEjGPKA93u
— Unicanal (@Unicanal) May 12, 2022
It should be noted that Claudia Aguilera returned to Paraguay on Thursday, May 12, along with some of the prosecutors who arrived in Colombia to investigate the death of Marcelo Pecci.
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