The Fourth Collegiate Court of the National District sentenced a man to 30 years in prison who two years ago murdered another in the María Auxiliadora sectoras an evasion to pay a debt owed to the victim.
According to a press release, judges Keyla Pérez, Elías Santini and Arisleyda Méndez Batista ordered that Brian Matos aka Brayan serve the sentence in the detention center La Victoria, for the death of Johan Martinez.
The file instrumented by the National District Prosecutor’s Office maintains that the crime occurred after 3:30 in the afternoon of June 7, 2020, when the victim was traveling on a motorcycle in the company of his brother-in-law Ely de Jesús Cepeda Rosario through the Albert Thomas street of the aforementioned sector.
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The men were hit by multiple shots fired at them by Brian Matos.
As reported at the hearing witness Cepeda Rosario, who was also injured in the incidentthat afternoon he and his brother-in-law went to the place where the event occurred to receive money that the aggressor owed to the deceased today.
He added that, instead of receiving the payment, both were attacked with bullets by a subject who covered his face with a mask and who later identified himself as Brayan.
The legal medical certificate drawn up by the forensic examiner in the case states that Johan Martínez died at the scene, after receiving eight shots in different parts of the bodywhile his companion Cepeda Rosario, was injured in the right buttock with exit through the thigh.
In the merits trial, the trial prosecutor Orlando Santos demonstrated that the acts committed by Brian Matos constitute the criminal types of murder and illegal possession of a firearmcrimes provided for and punished by articles 295, 296 and 302 of the Penal Code and articles 66 and 67 of Law 631-16, for the Control of Arms, Ammunition and Related Materials.
