“I know what I am going to do to him on the road”, was the warning that one of the agents of the National Police to the father of Richard Baez (El Peluquero), who died in a hospital center following he was allegedly attacked by members of the uniformed police in the Cienfuegos detachment, in the Santiago Oeste municipal district, at the time he was arrested.
The arrest occurred at the door of the residence of Pedro Rafael Sánchez (the victim’s father) when he arrived following spending time with some friends at an entertainment center.
Sánchez said that the agents justified the arrest by claiming that El Peluquero, 28, had shot members of a patrol.
According to his father’s complaint, the agents robbed his son of 35 thousand pesos.
According to Santa Báez, Richard’s mother, her offspring was a hairdresser, had a store and was a moneylender. He says that when he was arrested, while trying to enter his residence in the early hours of the morning, on March 21 of this year, an officer named Aquino made believe that a pistol was seized from him and that more than 35 thousand pesos, which his son demanded to be returned to him when he was already detained.
The deceased today is the father of three children and his sentimental partner, María Durán, is nine months pregnant. The caesarean section is scheduled for next week.
The young man died on April 4 at the José María Cabral y Báez regional university hospital in Santiago, where he had been an intern since March 21 following the attack. During that space, the young man underwent two surgical procedures on his head.
The autopsy report indicates that the death of El Peluquero was a homicide due to blunt head trauma.
For the death of the young man, 14 members of the Police are being investigated.
So far the Public ministry He has not filed charges once morest those responsible for his death.
The relatives expect the authorities to apply the full weight of the law to the murderers.
