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It was the same attorney general, Francisco Barbosa, who made the announcement. The man will be charged with the crime of aggravated homicide.
The Technical Investigation Body (CTI) of the Prosecutor’s Office captured this Saturday the alleged murderer of Wilfrido Murcia, the man who was killed last Tuesday, December 15, in an attempted robbery on a SITP bus. The attorney general, Francisco Barbosa, was the one who made the announcement.
“We have captured the person responsible for that death and we are going to charge him with the crime of aggravated homicide in the next few hours and we will request an intramural security measure,” announced the prosecutor Barbosa, who added that they would continue to fight crime in the capital.
According to information from the prosecuting body, the man was caught by surveillance cameras getting off the SITP where he committed the crime. Later, he got on a motorcycle and fled. In the middle of his escape, the accused threw the black diver he was wearing and a pen, elements that, according to the Prosecutor’s Office, became key to identifying him.
“The death of Wilfrido is absolutely outrageous, a man who, like any citizen, left his home and could not return to the bosom of his family because a criminal, for stealing a cell phone, took his life. These are the types of events that we have to punish and prosecute, ”said the prosecutor.
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The crime occurred at the whereabouts of the Tunal Shopping Center, on the route that covered the Verbenal de Sur-20 de Julio service, when a subject got into the vehicle with a firearm with the intention of assaulting the users. Apparently, the victim tried to oppose the robbery and it was when he was shot, one in his abdomen and another in his chest.
According to the information provided by the Ministry of Health at the time, when the ambulance arrived at the point, Murcia had already died. With him, there are already two people who have been murdered this year during an attempted robbery in the public transport system of Bogotá.
