Fatal attack against bricklayer in Bogotá for stealing his cell phone

On the night of October 18, a 31-year-old man He was murdered by three criminals who tried to steal his cell phone while he was using the device, outside his cousins’ house, in the Aures 1 neighborhood of the town of Suba in northwestern Bogotá. Apparently the man did not have keys and was calling for the door to be opened after arriving from having drinks with friends.

The victim, identified as José Reinel Perdomo, worked as a bricklayer, was surprised by three criminals with a knife, who attacked him for stealing his belongings.

The three assailants approached him until they cornered him against the wall of a house and after opposing and resisting the robbery, they inflicted several wounds with a knife, which in a matter of minutes caused his death. The robbers fled the scene towards the Juan Amarillo wetland with the mobile device and the bricklayer’s belongings.

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For now, the Police released information about three captures in the sector that show similarities with the people involved in the images where Perdomo died. Andrea Rocha, cousin of the deceased, told Noticias Caracol that the details of the criminals are still few. “We saw a video where it is seen that there are three people, the guys approach him, stab him and attack him,” said the relative of the bricklayer who lived in the company of his parents, who were financially dependent on him.

For his part, Hugo Acero, Bogotá’s Secretary of Security, lamented the murder and spoke about how the investigation is progressing: “We are working with the Police and the Prosecutor’s Office. We have good results in this and other cases regarding the arrest of those responsible ”.

Images from another video in Bogotá show that, apparently, hours before murdering José Reinel Perdomo, these criminals robbed three young men very close to the scene.

According to the complainants, when analyzing the images of the two videos, it is confirmed that the criminals in the two robberies are wearing the same clothing. The Police reported that those involved have physical characteristics similar to those captured, but that details about their prosecution are not yet known.

On average 650 people are victims of theft per day in Colombia:

According to the latest balance sheet from the Prosecutor’s Office on thefts in the country, between January and August 2020, 159,122 people have been victims of theft, which means that a day they rob 650 citizens on average, that is, approximately 27 robberies they happen every hour in Colombia.

Despite the fact that this year crime statistics have decreased by almost 60% compared to 2019, the figures do not cease to attract attention, considering that crime occurred in times of pandemic. According to the balance of the Prosecutor’s Office, the most recurrent forms of theft are: the theft of people with 69,399 victims in the first eight months of the year; cell phone theft with 32,978 victims and home theft with 17,097 victims.

In Bogotá, the towns most affected by mobile device theft are: Suba, Engativá and Kennedy.

However, the numbers of thefts that remain in impunity are quite alarming. In 2019, of the 463,431 processes that the Prosecutor’s Office opened for the crime, only 11,182 led to the execution of sentences. 12,929 went to trial and 133 more finished early. In other words, only 2.4% of the cases concluded or reached the trial stage..

A year later the picture is very similar, although the figures are lower due to time. Of 224,796 processes opened by the prosecuting body so far in 2020, only 1,955 reached the execution of sentences, 7,709 They are on trial and 60 were terminated early. That is to say, only 4.3 of the cases ended or are in the last phase.

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