How the arrest of the alleged serial killer of the Meiggs Neighborhood was achieved – National

During the afternoon of this Monday, Carabineros personnel in conjunction with the North Central Prosecutor’s Office achieved the arrest of a 30-year-old Colombian citizen identified as Diego Alexander Ruíz Restrepo for his alleged participation in the murders of at least six people.

In that sense, at least seven of these occurred between November 1 and 8 in the Center of Santiago, their victims being mainly people living on the street.

After obtaining a judicial authorization, at 3:00 p.m. this Monday and with the support of the Special Police Operations Group (GOPE) of the Carabineros, they proceeded to enter the property where it was located, finding evidence such as clothing and knives that linked directly to the suspect in the facts, for which the arrest warrant was carried out.

Investigation

The general director of the Carabineros, Mario Rozas explained that a job was carried out to review the cameras, to register witnesses, a lot of information crossing. “Until now there is a pattern of conduct and there are means of proof that place it at the site of the event,” he said.

Meanwhile, the prosecutor Pamela Contreras, from the North Central Prosecutor’s Office explained that the different surveillance cameras that were found in the Alameda axis, and in different places, have allowed us to establish routes that this subject made, both onward and onward, which allowed to establish a specific quadrant where it could be located and be able to identify it quickly “

Also, the persecutor pointed out that the characteristics of the detainee are “quite special” since “he did not interact with the victims, many of them were even sleeping when he stabbed them without provocation.”

Similarly, he maintained that the subject “is not 100% confessed, but has acknowledged participation” and that “he has not shown motivation so far.”

Immigration status and criminal record

Regarding the immigration situation of Ruíz Restrepo and his background, the Undersecretary of the Interior, Juan Francisco Galli, indicated that “the preliminary information that we have is that this person entered Chile regularly in 2013, however, he would have fallen into irregularity ”.

The authority also added that the subject “tried to regularize his immigration status both in 2018 and 2019, but because he had a criminal record, for having been involved in crimes of robbery with surprise, that regularization was rejected. However, due to the background that we have, until now it was with an arrest warrant and in an irregular condition in Chile. “

It is worth mentioning that the subject had a record for theft with surprise.

“We are quite appalled”

The Minister of the Interior Rodrigo Delgado, referred to this case during the night of this Monday, where he pointed out that “we are quite dismayed by this situation that affects at least six victims, four of them, people living on the street, and for his position, the death of a person is always going to be a cause of deep sadness, but when we are also in the presence of a murder with such horrible characteristics, such as serial murder “.

“As a government, we want to express our condolences for the victims and we also want to follow the details of this horrible situation,” stated the Minister of the Interior, who also thanked the “joint, multidisciplinary work, led by the Chilean Police, Labocar, the Public Ministry and different organizations that have collaborated in having a forceful investigation in record time “.