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Before a judge in Bogotá, the Venezuelan citizen who was captured for the murder of the 24-year-old patrolman Edwin Caro Gómez, was presented by the Prosecutor’s Office this Wednesday, around 3:15 in the afternoon.
The police officer died of a gunshot wound to the face when he was conducting a search procedure of two suspect men with household knapsacks who were mobilizing on a black motorcycle with QDD 08E plates from Funza, Cundinamarca.
(Who is the one involved in the crime of patrolman Edwin Caro?)
The man was identified as the Venezuelan citizen Wilkerson Slyke Hernández Sánchez, who was accompanying another man who has not yet been identified and who would correspond to another immigrant.
The capture of Hernández took place minutes after the murder of the patrol car Caro, in Carrera 7.ª with 79B street, after a pursuit by a policeman and an escort.
According to the police report and the story of the patrolman Caro’s companion, the foreign citizen Wilkerson Hernández was the one who allegedly fired at the patrolman Edwin Caro Gómez.
According to the prosecutor in the case, agent Jhonatan Andrés Baquero carried out the capture. Hernández was caught in flagrante delicto for the crime of aggravated homicide.
The uniformed man is part of a security scheme of an official of the Presidency of the Republic who at that time was passing through the El Nogal sector and responded to the request for support made by Caro’s colleague.
Tribute to murdered patrolman
Mauricio Moreno. TIME
In the narration of the events, the prosecutor in the case says that in the persecution Baquero encountered citizens who told him that the man was armed. Baquero yelled at him to stop.
Finally, the uniformed man caught up with him and carried out the capture procedure. Then he was transferred on foot, but on the way citizens approached and began to beat the captured man with helmets, fists and kicks.
(Video: the exact moment when patrolman Edwin Caro is shot)
Among the probative material are the motorcycle of the two men and the weapons that Hernández was carrying, who threw it into some bushes when he was fleeing, and that of the other man, who died at the scene.
There are also the testimonies of the policeman who carried out the capture and the agent José David Carvajalino, Caro’s partner, as well as the testimony of a citizen of the area where the events occurred.
The accused, according to the prosecutor, was transferred to a clinic where he was treated for injuries caused by members of the community with blows of helmets and fists.
The judicial officer also indicates that agent Baquero protected the Venezuelan citizen from the enraged community and handed him over to the policemen who had requested support by radio. The captured man was placed under the orders of the Prosecutor’s Office at 5 in the afternoon.
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In the facts, according to the narration, the patrolman José David Carvajalino, who was accompanying Caro, also had injuries, which he suffered in the middle of the exchange of shots that occurred in the 7th avenue with 79th street.
Agent Baquero, upon arriving at the scene, meets Carvajalino, who recognizes Hernández as one of the suspects who were being searched and who had two weapons in their home backpack.
The comrades of the murdered patrolman remembered him at the scene.
Mauricio Moreno. TIME
It was also noted that Hernández has traces of injuries suffered in the past. However, it was not specified with what type of weapons they were caused.
At the request of the delegate attorney for the case, Beatriz Jiménez, Judge 79 suspended the hearing.
Jiménez says that, according to the report, the capture was at 3:15 and that that time corresponds to the distance they would have traveled. She said that they are on shift and she is satisfied with the timeline of the events.
From which it can be inferred that the captured person was informed of their rights. It also indicates that Hernández did not provide information on family members.
Likewise, it pointed out that the State must guarantee the rights of the captured person so that they are not mistreated. And he asked to investigate the origin of the injuries he presents.
However, he clarifies that in this regard there are the versions of two agents and some citizens, which coincide, and he gives credit to them. “During the capture, there was no violation of the person,” said Jiménez, who asked the judge to legalize the capture of Hernández.
The lawyer Víctor Chaparro, assigned as a defender, asked the judge that the captured man had told him that at the crossroads of shots he got off his motorcycle and began to run for a block and a half, where he was intercepted by a soldier, two bodyguards and a policeman.
He states that these people “mistreated him” and that the doctor who treated him also “scolded and abused him.” Given this, the defense attorney asked the judge to take this aspect into account when referring to the capture and “the capture is declared illegal for having been subjected to mistreatment.”
The judge in the case dismissed the alleged aggressions that the captured person had suffered and indicated that the capture procedure “conforms to the constitutional mandates and no rights have been violated” against the Venezuelan citizen Wilkerson Slyke Hernández Sánchez.
During the capture, there was no violation of the person
“Declare the legality of the capture for the crime of aggravated homicide,” added the judge who legalized the capture. He also declared that the seizure for the purpose of confiscation of the motorcycle, where the weapons that were used in the murder of the patrolman Edwin Caro Gómez were transported.
At the end of the hearing, the prosecutor in the case charged Hernández Sánchez with consummated aggravated homicide, attempted murder —in the case of the patrolman Carvajalino— and illegal possession of weapons.
The crime of aggravated homicide would give Hernández a sentence of 400 to 600 months in prison if convicted by a judge.
While the trial is being carried out, the Venezuelan Wilkerson Slyke Hernández Sánchez must remain in a prison.
Hernández did not accept the charges and said that he did not shoot the patrolman Caro, but was his companion, whose identity the authorities have not known until now. He also asked that he be transferred to his country.
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The judge suspended the hearing and convened the hearing on the assurance measure against the Venezuelan citizen Wilkerson Slyke Hernández Sánchez for this Friday afternoon.
Editorial Bogotá
