The National Civil Police (PNC) indicated that, during the early hours of Sunday, May 11, Three people were killed And a minor was arrested on suspicions of having committed the crime within a house located on the 5th Avenue and Manzana C, Colonia Santa María La Paz, Zone 21.
The 15 -year -old teenager now faces a sanctioning process. And according to the authorities of the Ministry of Social Welfare (SBS), it was sent to a center in charge of the institution in San Juan Sacatepéquez.
Who are the deceased gang members and what did the judge solved against the child?
Jonathan Alexander Santos García, 23; José Alberto Chávez Saquic, 22, and Víctor Antonio Arriaga Rodríguez, 21, along with the teenager, were contacted by the leader of neighborhood 18, Wilder Rodríguez, aka “Pato”to commit attacks in zone 12 of Villa Nueva, according to the investigators of the case. However, they did not commit that fact.
The PNC said that the four alleged gang members of the 18th neighborhood would have arrived a week ago in Santa María la Paz, zone 21. He added that they were residents of El Salvador, Jutiapa and the Bethania neighborhood, area 7 capital.
During the early hours of Sunday, May 11, neighbors alerted over shots in the aforementioned colony. They indicated that the attack occurred in a rental room, where the bodies of three men with bullet impacts were observed; One of them had his hands tied.
In the scene was a teenager who, when he noticed the presence of the PNC, moved away and entered another room of the property, according to the police report.
The PNC indicated that the child hid a gun with the frosted registration number, a charger and three cartridges.
For these facts, the Court of First Instance on a 24 -hour shift for adolescents in conflict with the Criminal Law of the Department of Guatemala resolved that the adolescent follow a process due to the possible violation of Illegal firearm possession with altered registration number.
The SBS authorities affirmed that the minor was transferred, by order of the Court, to the Youth of Freedom Deprivation for Women (Cejupple – Sparrows), located in the municipality of San Juan Sacatepéquez.
The report to which he had access Free press He explained that the teenager denied belonging to some gang.
The CEJUPLIM managers placed it with other minors cataloged as “paisas”, that is, they do not identify with some mara.
Death profile
- Jonathan Alexander Santos García, 23, is originally from El Salvador and entered Guatemala irregularly, said the PNC. Data from the judicial agency details that Santos García had been arrested on June 9, 2023 in Mixco.
- José Alberto Chávez Saquic, 22, apparently resided in the Bethania neighborhood, zone 7, and has an antecedent of August 28, 2023.
- Víctor Antonio Arriaga Rodríguez, 21, allegedly originally from Jutiapa.
The agents of the PNC, of the police station 14, said that three days ago they had identified the gang members during a routine operation in the Santa María La Paz neighborhood, zone 21.
Who is Wilder Rodríguez, aka “Pato”?
Rodríguez Aguilar It is part of the Rueda del Barrio 18 and celebrates a 518 -year sentence for the death of four people and the wounds caused to another 21 during an armed attack perpetrated at the San Juan de Dios General Hospital in 2015. In addition, the Public Ministry (MP) attributes at least 100 deaths, including that of an PNC investigating agent.
Rodríguez and seven other members of Barrio 18 were sentenced to 518 years in prison; Among them is a brother of Aldo Dupié Ochoa, aka “El Lobo”.
According to the judges, the group conspired to attack with a grenade to agents of the prison system at the General Hospital.
THE ATTACK IN THE HOSPITAL
On March 10, 2015 there was a Granada attack and shots in the external consultation of the San Juan de Dios General Hospitalwhich generated panic and caused the death of four people.
That day María Romero Saravia died. The next day, Domingo Ical Alvarado died, 35. A week later, Modesto Ambrocio Esteban González, 50. The fourth victim was Kimberly Ruano, worker of the Maternal Child Department, who died on May 3, 2015. She also collaborated with the Smile Factory program.
The attack aimed to rescue Marlon Alexander Ochoa Mejía, aka “El Bloqui”, brother of Aldo Dupié, one of the leaders of the 18th neighborhood.
MP attributes 100 murders to alias Pato
In 2014, the MP initiated an investigation against Rodríguez, leader of the click only for Crazy of Mara 18. The union would be in charge of transmitting the orders of the neighborhood wheel to the members of his gang in the Mezquital and Villa Lobos, in Villa Nueva; Boca del Monte, in Villa Canales; and in zones 12 and 21 of the capital.
Rodriguez is attributed the murder of the PNC Agent David Aarón Cifuentes Velásquez, 23, and the armed attack against agent Sergio Rolando Marroquín Corado, 24, which occurred on July 8, 2013 in zone 21.