The 1st Trial Court of Amazonas decreed a sentence of 26 years and 6 months in prison against the sergeant of the Bolivarian National Guard (GNB), Yilber Vera González (28), for the death of Diana Carolina Cedeño (23), an event that occurred on October 24, 2015 in Puerto Ayacucho, reported the Public Ministry.
That day, a GNB commission made up of Vera González and two companions were patrolling in the Monte Bello neighborhood, where they were holding a party in a house. Immediately, Vera González got out of the patrol car and offensively asked one of those who was in the meeting for a cigarette, who refused, according to the account of the Prosecutor’s Office.
Faced with such a situation, the official took out a 9-millimeter weapon and made several detonations in the air, which caused the victim to leave the house frightened. At that moment, the soldier asked one of her companions for the regulation weapons and shot those present, which is why the woman was injured and taken to a health center, where she died minutes later.
Given these circumstances, the sergeant was apprehended by GNB officials and placed at the order of the Public Ministry. In the trial, the 4th prosecutor’s office of that jurisdiction ratified the accusation against the aggressor for the crimes of qualified homicide, perpetrated with treachery and futile motives and improper use of a regulation weapon.
In another judicial act, the 1st Court of Control of Nueva Esparta sentenced Maikel Luis Rojas Quijada (36) to serve a sentence of 19 years and four months in prison after having admitted his responsibility in the femicide of his ex-partner Mileydis Mary Quijada Orta (36).
That homicide occurred in the town of Altagracia in the Gómez municipality on May 2. Rojas did not accept the breakup of the relationship, for which he stabbed the woman in various parts of her body, causing her death in that place, according to the Prosecutor’s version.
