First the head of state, José Jerí, excluded the National Police from responsibility stating that “the sensitive death (of Eduardo Ruíz Sanz) occurred outside the area where the citizen mobilization mainly took place.”
Then, the Minister of the Interior, PNP General (r) Vicente Tiburciodenied everything before Congress, which summoned him to offer explanations about the murder of the rapper, on the night of Wednesday, October 15, near Plaza Francia. “We reject the accusations made against the National Police. In the place where this deplorable event occurred there was no police presence and We strongly deny the participation of the Terna group in the citizen mobilizations” Tiburcio falsely stated.
In the images captured at the crime scene, it is clearly observed that the person who shoots has the characteristics of a police officer (because of the haircut, the build, the clothing), which runs among several people who were leaving after participating in the protest. After leaving them behind, the subject turns around and begins shooting for no reason at the nearest group of citizens. The same cameras recorded that an adult who was walking on the sidewalk was injured. People close to the place immediately evacuated him to the Arzobispo Loayza Hospital. Agents from the Homicide Investigation Division went to the hospital and found that the victim was Eduardo Ruíz Sanz32 years old, a rap singer whose stage name was “Trvko”, born in Pueblo Libre and resident in San Martín de Porres. October 13 had been his birthday.
YOU CAN SEE: DININCRI: death of Eduardo Ruíz Sánz was homicide by firearm projectile (PAF)
The evidence of homicide
The Republic obtained the record of what the agents found. While authorities of the Executive Branch and the Ministry of the Interior rejected any relationship with the death of Eduardo Ruíz Sanz, conclusively The agents’ report indicates that it was a murder:
HOMICIDE BY PAF (Firearm Projectile). At 11:40 p.m. on October 15, 2025, Eduardo Mauricio RUIZ SANZ (32) ID 72728962 entered the emergency room at the Arzobispo Loayza National Hospital, driven by some friends. According to reports, they were at the demonstration where apparently he had been hit by a firearm projectile at chest level (they do not indicate the exact location of the events). The form and circumstances of the incident are also unknown.
Diagnosis: unassisted death, penetrating chest trauma with entry hole in the lower third of the chest.
Through its own channels, the Public Ministry learned that the suspect in the murder of Eduardo Ruíz Sanz was a police officer deployed in civilian clothes, concealed among the protesters. In addition, he obtained images from the cameras installed where the murder occurred, confirming his suspicion that the perpetrator was a police officer.
YOU CAN SEE: Prosecutor’s Office asks the PNP for a list of personnel and operational plans for the night of the crime
There was only the confession
For this reason, the In order to establish a homicide investigation, the Public Ministry requested the head of the Lima Police Region, PNP General Enrique Felipe Monroy, for all available information to identify the aggressor.: “Operations plans, operations orders, telephone orders, memoranda and other documents and their annexes, must specify their command organization, zoning, operational forces, personnel distribution, general and specific tasks.”
“Intelligence and risk assessment reports and from the officers in charge of police personnel, linked to the execution of police operations, are also required,” the tax provision specifies.
Neither the government nor the Police Command could continue to maintain the same argument in the face of the prosecutor’s decision.
On Thursday afternoon, when testimonies and videos were circulating confirming that the person who shot to kill was a police officer, José Jerí’s government ended up surrendering to the evidence. The General Commander of the National Police, Lieutenant General Óscar Arriola Delgadocalled a press conference and gave the name of the perpetrator of the shots: third-class non-commissioned officer Luis Magallanes. He did not give his complete identification: Luis Michael Magallanes Gaviria, born on November 11, 1996, in the district of Iquitos, province of Maynas, department of Loreto. Arriola stated that Magallanes was assigned to the Kidnapping and Extortion Investigation Division of the Dirincri.
According to Arriola’s version, Luis Magallanes Gaviria shot when he felt cornered by the protesters, he even received blows and suffered injuries. But the images and testimonies do not coincide with the alleged harassment of police officer Magallanes. According to the testimony of the officer identified as the perpetrator of the crime, he was commissioned as prevention support to the area of the marches, due to a telephone order for all police units. He indicated that he was detected by a group of protesters who were gathered in Plaza Francia. They believed he was an undercover Terna police officer, so he tried to flee. Seeing himself being chased, he took out his gun and shot at the people.
YOU CAN SEE: Luis Magallanes is the police non-commissioned officer who murdered Eduardo Ruiz Sanz in the October 15 march
