A 31-year-old woman was beaten to death by a 61-year-old man, in the Fundo Anaco sector, in the Anaco municipality of Anzoátegui state.
The attack against Mirelia Maita Martínez occurred on the night of Friday, October 24, in the house she shared with her attacker, identified as Jesús Rafael Hernández, known by the alias El Chino.
Through social networks it was reported that the authorities received a phone call from the victim’s mother to report that her daughter was unconscious in a health center after having received several blows to the head, allegedly inflicted by her romantic partner. The complainant indicated that the aggressor had already hit her daughter on previous occasions.
According to the investigations, the incident occurred in the middle of a couple’s argument, in which the woman received multiple blows to the head with a blunt object (pipe).
Due to the severity of the victim’s injuries, she was sent to the Luis Razetti University Hospital in Barcelona, where she died this Saturday morning.
Subsequently, it was learned that alias El Chino was apprehended by a police commission in the Funda Anaco sector and transferred to the main command, where he was notified of the reasons for his arrest.
