Camilo Cardozo Polo, 37 years old; and Nelson Enrique Pérez Palomino, the first of them a shopkeeper, are the two men assassinated this afternoon, Thursday, August 25, in the El Pozón neighborhood in the midst of an attack perpetrated by a hitman who shot them inside a store on Calle de Las Flores, between the sectors February 19 and Nueva Cartagena.
The Metropolitan Police confirmed that the gunman entered the premises and after addressing Camilo he shot him at close range and without saying a word. The victim’s companions tried to intervene and stop the gunman, but he kept shooting and killed one of them and wounded the other. The latter is 57 years old. The incident was recorded on video from the business’s security camera. It may interest you: Another attack by assassins in Cartagena: three men are shot in El Pozón
The hitman fled on a motorcycle as a barbecue, but quadrant patrols that were notified of the situation carried out a “lock plan” and in the middle of the chase they confronted the subjects. One of them, the alleged murderer, shot at the uniformed men and in the confrontation he was wounded and captured after being abandoned by his accomplice, who escaped from him and has not yet been detained. Also read: Sicarios surprise him sitting down and shoot him in San José de los Campanos
The presumed hired assassin was identified as ‘Deivis, 23 years old, from whom a 9-millimeter caliber pistol was seized. He is treated in a care center and as soon as he recovers he will be made available to the Prosecutor’s Office.
This attack occurs just 24 hours after the murder in similar circumstances of a young man nicknamed ‘the Baby’ in the San José de Los Campanos neighborhood, Buenos Aires street. Marlon Martínez Zabaleta was sitting under a tree when a gunman shot him at close range and without saying a word.