Nicaraguan Karla Patricia Rocha Fuentes, 45, was murdered in Costa Rica by her 21-year-old son Morales Rocha, who stabbed her in the chest and then fled the scene. According to preliminary information, the young man suffered from mental problems.
Rocha died in a hospital in San José, Costa Rica, where she was transferred on October 30, after her son took a kitchen knife to attack her and left her in the house located in Bajo Los Laras, in Sagrada Familia, of the capital. The case is under investigation by the Homicide agents of the Judicial Investigation Agency (OIJ) and the official version indicates that the accused was detained by the Public Force.
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“Preliminarily, the person who attacked her allegedly suffers from a mental problem,” says the OIJ. Some Costa Rican media announced that the attacker was found in a neighbor’s house.
Rocha was from the Esquipulas community, on Ometepe Island, Rivas, however for many years she had lived in Costa Rica where her children were born. His relatives expressed that his body will be transferred this November 1 to his place of origin to give him a Christian burial.
At the end of October, another murder was recorded in the neighboring country. The young Nicaraguan Rachell Mariana Traña Reyes, 22, was murdered in the patio of her house when a subject entered and shot her several times in the presence of her two-year-old son. The Costa Rican judicial authorities reported that the aggressor fired five shots at him in the head, face, abdomen and back.
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The boy was unharmed and the Costa Rican Red Cross transferred him to a medical center in the area so that the doctors could treat him due to the emotional impact he suffered.
The National Children’s Board (PANI) reported to the Costa Rican media that the Regional Directorate of Immediate Attention of the Huetar Caribe area treated the child and remained under the responsibility of the father.
