The municipal government dismissed the possibility of the presence of armed groups in the territory. Three people were killed.
The Secretary of Government of El Colegio, Andrés Guzmán Vidal, and the Commander of the Police of Cundinamarca, Colonel Mauricio Arley Herrera.
The Mayor’s Office of Mesitas del School, Cundinamarca, delivered an official report against the massacre that caused three deaths in a farm on the San Ramón sidewalk, in the vicinity of the municipality. In addition to deaths, three people remain under medical observation in healthcare centers. The authorities rule out the presence of armed groups.
Since the first versions of violent deaths were released, the Mayor’s Office described the attack as “isolated”, adding that it was “in investigation.” “These events have nothing to do with the tranquility that our region presents And our inhabitants “(SIC), said the administration in a statement signed by Mayor Diego Andrés López.
Colonel Mauricio Arley Herrera, commander of the Cundinamarca Police Department, confirmed the balance of victims – two mortal and three injured – and assured that the police deployed “All its research capacities”, reaction and intelligence to establish “the circumstances of time, mode and place” that surrounded the crime.
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In context: Massacre in school tables: they kill three people on a farm in Cundinamarca
Until now, neither Herrera nor the Secretary of Government of El Colegio, Andrés Guzmán Vidal, have delivered greater details, except for the most accurate hypothesis that seem to handle: an “account adjustment”. The police have reviewed videos of security cameras, interviewed to inhabitants of the sector and played a vast criminal work.
“We want to give a message of tranquility,” said Guzmán, who insisted that “these facts are isolated,” “They simply obey an adjustment of accounts” and “very surely” originated in Bogotá. The official did not refer to possible bands or structures among which the confrontation could be given, although he promised that the investigations will continue.
Preliminarily, it is said that the occupants of the Villa Claudia farm were departing When they were surprised by armed people who shot indiscriminately. The identity of the victims is not confirmed, although the governor of Cundinamarca, Jorge Emilio Rey, indicated that these are two women and a man.
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The community called the police at approximately two in the afternoon. The uniformed found injuries of nine millimeter caliber gun projectiles. A man was injured in his left forearm; Another, on her neck, and a woman, in her abdomen. The first testimonies point to four aggressors in two motorcycles.
Governor Rey said he asked Comandante Herrera to attend “directly” the case, and ordered to activate a lock plan and display “all” the “criminal investigation.” Secretary Guzmán described tables from school as a “safe territory”. “We will not allow insecurity to continue taking our municipality,” he warned.
According to the Institute of Development and Peace Studies (Indepaz), the fatal victims of the massacre would apparently be members of the same family. Throughout 2025, according to data from the same entity, 48 massacres have been recorded in Colombia. Since 2016, eight municipalities in Cundinamarca have been the epicenter of twelve multiple murders.
The majority of cundinamarqueas massacres had registered in Soacha. It is the first time, at least in nine years, that tables from schoola modest municipality of about thirty thousand inhabitants that nourishes economically of tourism and recreation, Feel the fear of a crime of such magnitude. The community, remarked Indepaz, “remains on alert.”
Source: Integrated information system
