On March 8 there was a armed attack In the Colosseum of San Manuel Chaparrón, Jalapa, where Jonnathan Cristian Alveño Lemus Irvin Isaí Hernández Aguilar, and Alejandro Antonio Cisneros died.
After the shooting, Braulio Hernández Ramírez, judge of first criminal instance of Jalapa, turned two arrest warrants against Luis Zúñiga and Carlos Calderón Zúñigaindicated as the main suspects of having participated in the attack.
The investigations led to the National Civil Police (PNC) and the Public Ministry (MP) up to two homes in zone 15 capital, where Zúñiga and Calderón apparently resided.
During the raids, the authorities identified in one of the properties an employee of the National Commission against the corruption of the Presidency, a worker of the judicial agency and a businessman member of the Board of Directors of the National Forest Institute (INAB), relatives of the suspects.
Carlos Calderón Zúñiga appeared before Jalapa judge seven weeks after the armed attack.
During the hearing, the judge issued a lack of merit in favor of Calderón Zúñiga, because the MP did not present sufficient indications to demonstrate their participation in the death of the three men on March 8.
The investigating entity indicated that only Calderón appeared to the diligence, while Luis Zúñiga continues a fugitive, pointed out of the crime of homicide.
“We are investigating another person who appears in a video and it is observed that he shoots in the Jaripeo of San Manuel Chaparrón, Jalapa,” authorized authorities of that agency.
The video that shows the confrontation
In two videos you had access Free press It is observed when a subject who wore green shirt shoots against Irvin Isaí Hernández Aguilar, Jonnathan Cristian Alveño Lemus and Alejandro Antonio Cisneros.
In a first video, of a minute with 47 seconds, two groups are observed discussing and struggling with weapons in hand. As the tension increases, some attendees withdraw from the colosseum.
Alveño, with coffee shirt and black cap, allegedly attacks Luis Zúñiga, who wears a white shirt. Try to sign up with a weapon, but another subject grabs his hand and begins a struggle.
In the second 49, another man draws a weapon with a laser sight and also points against Zúñiga and his son.
Carlos Calderón Zúñiga lowers the colosseum’s stands, approaches Alveño, touches his shoulder and tries to disarm it, but Alveño hits him in the face with the gun. In the 1.14 minute, Alveño throws Zúñiga to the ground and points to the head.
Zúñiga tries to stand up, draws her weapon, but Alveño takes it by the neck. In the 1.31 minute, Zúñiga moves away, he approaches his son, who gives him a weapon, and several detonations are heard, although it is not seen who shoots.
A second video, of 10 seconds, shows Alveño and others hitting Zúñiga with guns. A woman intervenes and takes Zúñiga’s arm, who bleeds from the thorax. In the second six, a subject with green shirt and black cap begins to shoot. At least 12 bullets are heard and people run from the place.
The researchers consider that the shooting could have started by a fight, although they still try to identify the other armed subjects. In addition, they do not rule out a struggle between organized crime groups.
Threats and background
One of the witnesses of the shooting told the Police that Alveño was a lender and had conflicts with members of organized crime, which could have motivated the attack.
On January 23, 2020, the PNC arrested him in flagrance in El Progreso, Jutiapa, during an operation against bands dedicated to drug trafficking.
Subsequently, on July 14 of the same year, he was captured again in the Las Casitas neighborhood, Blanca Agua, Jutiapa, for an arrest warrant for theft. He was sent to the El Boquerón prison, in Cuilapa, Santa Rosa.
The authorities suspected that Alveño integrated a criminal structure that operated in Blanca, Ipala, San Manuel Chaparrón and nuns, Jalapa, with support from local authorities, who are part of another ongoing investigation.