A user of the platform inDrive He died last Tuesday from severe trauma when he fell to the pavement in the Winston Churchill Avenue after breaking away from the door of a Taxi with whose driver had held a discussion.
The victim is Raider Cruz Jimenezwho died four days after the beating, while the accused is Luis Arsenio Philismat Báezto whom the Permanent Attention judge sentenced him to three months of preventive detention in La Victoria prison this Thursday.
How did the discussion?
The document with the request for a coercive measure describes that the incident that caused the death of Cruz Jiménez occurred on friday the 14that 1:30 in the morning on Rafael Augusto Sánchez Street, in the Evaristo Morales sector of the National District.
Previously, the victim had requested on the platform inDrive a Taxi to transfer it from the Lucerna sector, Santo Domingo Este. Once on board the vehicle, he informed the driver who took the trip, Luis Arsenio Philismat Báez, that when he reached his destination a young woman was going to pay him.
The document adds that when they arrived, the lady Davana Zapata Real She said that they should take her to the ATM to withdraw the money to pay for the service, they went to make the withdrawal and paid the taxi driver who immediately left the place.
Minutes later, the woman realizes that she had left the card in the back seat of the taxi driver’s Kia K5 vehicle, for which he requested the victim Raider Cruz Jimenez to contact him so that he could bring the plastic back.
Upon returning, Philismat Báez “refused to give him the card clarifying that he was only delivering it to its owner and that, in addition, they had to pay this second trip”.
The victim Raider Cruz Jimenez had a discussion with driver and jumped into the vehicle “to snatch the card” to Philismat Báez, “so he started his vehicle”
Jiménez, adds the document, he hung himself from the window driver “struggling and attacking the accused”, who continued driving towards the Winston Churchill Avenue.
Meters later, Cruz Jiménez “let go of the window and fell to the pavement resulting with multiple injuriesa fact that was captured by the security cameras of the Continental Hotel.” According to the National District Prosecutor’s Office, the accused, Philismat Báez, fled the scene.
