The night of April 27 while David of the Saints24 years old, was detained and handcuffed in the detachment of the National Police of Ensanche Naco, was beaten by his cellmates with even a pair of tennis shoes, according to another man who witnessed the action and whose testimony is contained in the request for coercive measures against the seven defendants in the cell, told the authorities. death of the young man
According to what was narrated by the man, of Haitian nationality, who had been detained and taken to that crew shortly before David, three other men, also detained and civilians, who are identified in the accusatory file as Santiago Mateo Victoriano, Michael Pérez Ramos and Jean Carlos Martínez Peña beat up de los Santos that finally caused him to die. death.
In addition to the three civilians, Captain Domingo Alberto Rodríguez Rodríguez, Second Lieutenant Germán García de la Cruz, Corporal Alfonso Decena Hernández and Private San Manuel González García are in the file, whom the Public Ministry accuses of having knowledge and having actively participated in providing the conditions that generated the deadly attack.
“They took a strong man (David); He arrived safely, he was calm and without handcuffs, but when they wanted to enter the cell he ran away, the policemen had to fall behind him to grab him, when they did they put the handcuffs behind him and pushed him to get him into the cell”told the witness about the events that occurred in the Naco detachment, as stated in the document.
He says that when he was put in the cell, David leaned against a wall and began to make noise, which would have annoyed the other detainees, who, according to what he says, asked him to be quiet, circumstances in which the cops On duty they fired pepper spray into the cell, which upset the three men.
He affirms that this would have been the reason why they began the attack against the young man who, according to the story, was told “little devil, get us involved, because of you, we were sleeping peacefully, that’s why we are going to kill you”, Held.
Say what “They punched him like boxers, after he fell to the ground, they climbed on top of him and their feet even entered his mouth, one of the prisoners who is bald and another who is skinny, took my red Nike tennis shoes with white soles that were in the window and began to hit him in the face with them “he claimed.
He argued that when the noise was heard one of the cops on duty he went to the cell to see what was happening, at which point “the bald prisoner said that nothing was happening, so the police officer left without entering the cell. The strong man was spewing blood from his nose and mouth,” the man said.
” There is one who is bald, that was the one who hit him the most, punched him, kicked him and hit him with sneakers, the second is skinny, he took a tennis shoe from the bald man and hit him many times, he even hit me a kick, but the bald man told him to give me a band, the third was dark, but not so dark, he gave him several cookies, “the story continued.
He says that on the morning of April 28 the cops They entered the cell and asked what had happened, because David was lying on the floor, bleeding and trembling “but the prisoners said that he had hit the wall and the bald and the skinny prisoners pointed their fingers at me. mouth that I shouldn’t speak because if I did they would kill me, that’s why I didn’t say anything to the cops“, bill.
He reveals that the last thing he saw was the cops They took David’s handcuffs off, got him up, took him out of the cell, bathed him and put him in a chair, at which point the detainee identified as “El Calvo” put him to clean the blood that had been scattered on the floor. Shortly after he was released.
Judge Rigoberto Cena Salas, of the Judicial Office of Permanent Attention of the National District, postponed until May 13 at 9:00 in the morning the knowledge of coercive measures against the seven involved in the death from David of the Saints.
