The mayor of the Paraguayan city of Pedro Juan Caballero (east), bordering BrazilJose Carlos Acevedo who was shot five days ago in an attack, died this Sunday, a medical spokesman reported.
“He was brain dead and later his death was recorded,” said the doctor David Pena to journalists. The 51-year-old mayor was the brother of Ronald Acevedo, governor of the department of Amambay whose 21-year-old daughter was also shot to death in october last year when leaving a disco.
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The murder of the official’s niece was in charge of the prosecutor Marcelo Peci, assassinated in Cartagena, Colombia on May 10.
Another brother of the mayor, the former president of Congress Roberto Acevedo, He suffered two attacks and finally died of covid in 2021.
In the early hours of this Sunday, the body of the mayor was transferred to the seat of the municipality (alcaldía)where he is watched over by dismayed family and friends.
Acevedo, from the opponent Authentic Radical Liberal Party (PLRA), was attacked by a subject who was traveling, together with at least three individuals, in a car.
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The mayor was intercepted in front of the mayor’s office, when he was apparently heading, without an escort, towards his car. researchers identified four assassins, like the perpetrators of the attack, who are presumed to have escaped to Brazil. Two women were detained for inquiries.
The suspects appear in the police record as protagonists of a gang war that fight for control of the routes of marijuana and cocaine cwith destination to Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Europe.
The victim received seven hits of firearm, four of them in the neck and the rest in both arms, according to medical reports.
