They order preventive prison for two alleged perpetrators of the Llano Verde massacre

This Saturday ended the hearing to legalize the capture of Jefferson Marcial Angulo Quiñones and Juan Carlos Loaiza Ocampo, two of the three alleged perpetrators of the massacre perpetrated in the Llano Verde neighborhood, on August 11.

The guarantee control judge accepted the request of the prosecutor in charge of the investigation, so both will remain in custody until the legal procedure is concluded. They are accused of the crimes of aggravated homicide, carrying and trafficking in weapons.

In the diligence, the Prosecutor’s Office delivered its version of the murder of five minors, whose bodies were found in a canyon in eastern Cali. Angulo Quiñones and Loaiza Ocampo acknowledged their participation in the events, but affirmed that the person who shot the children was Gabriel Alejandro Bejarano, still a fugitive, and they did not accept the charges.

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According to the assigned prosecutor, the three “took knives from the minors that they used to cut the cane they were eating and proceeded to intimidate them with a firearm. They threaten them, shoot them and leave the bodies in the place,” the Prosecutor’s Office explained that it also considers the crime as an act of intolerance.

In the middle of the hearing, it was also known that those currently detained are not part of the private security of the property where the bodies were found, as the prosecutor Francisco Barbosa initially reported.

In reality, and according to the defense of one of the families of the victims, they are hired by a Bumanguesa company for logistics transport that also offers security services and carries out work in the Jarillón sector.

The Prosecutor’s Office made the request noting all the evidence collected and the seriousness of the events in the midst of those who murdered the minors. They argue that the foregoing implies that these people are a danger to the community and that, if released, they would seek to hinder the case.

They detailed that both tried to evade the authorities during their capture: while Angulo Quiñonez jumped from a third floor and fled running for several blocks in eastern Cali, Loaiza Ocampo tried to escape through one of the windows of the building where he was.

In turn, the attorney Henry Díaz considered that the prosecution’s request was fully justified.