Judge sends Haizak Karol Chara to prison, the second person captured for the murder and torture of teenager Harold Aroca in Bogotá.
Five armed men intercepted Harold on August 5 when he went out to the sports center in the Los Laches neighborhood. Among them, Haizak Chara, according to the Prosecutor’s Office, which has compiled videos, testimonies and evidentiary material that points to the now accused.
The authorities captured Chara after arresting Anderson Santiago Pedraza, whom a guarantee judge sent to prison on November 21. The Prosecutor’s Office charged them both homicide, torture, simple kidnapping and illegal possession of weapons. None accepted the charges.
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Pedraza, Chara and the other suspects, whom the authorities are looking for, approached Aroca, intimidated him, grabbed him by the shirt and “forced him to accompany them against his will,” the Prosecutor’s Office indicated at the restraining order hearing.
The weekend before Harold was kidnapped and murdered, a homicide had occurred in his neighborhood. In his school the fact was discussed, and the teenager, apparently, claimed to know who committed it.
On August 5, when he was going to play soccer, five men kidnapped him.
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They kidnapped him, took him away and abandoned him in a wooded area. On August 9, four days after the kidnapping and after a wake, Diana Carolina García, Harold’s mother, found his body, which had burns and gunshot wounds.
The minor was “questioned about the accusations he allegedly made against a criminal organization in the sector, transferred to a place where he was subjected to cruel and inhuman treatment, and finally attacked with a firearm,” the Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement.
The prosecutor of the Children and Adolescents Unit in charge of the case narrated at Haizak Chara’s hearing that Harold died from four gunshot wounds “and other injuries, in which there were bruises on the neck, face and hands”, abrasions and suffocation.
Source: Integrated Information System
