At the close of this edition, Fausto Miguel de Jesus Cruz de la Motaconfessed murderer of the Minister of the Environment, Orlando Jorge Merawas still in the Attorney General’s Office, where he had been more than seven hours and according to journalists from that entity he was being interrogated by prosecutors, headed by the Director of Prosecution of the Public Ministry, Yeni Berenice Reynoso.
The PRG reported yesterday that the Directorate of Persecution is working in coordination with the National District Prosecutor’s Office to present preliminary charges.
The investigative body said that it handles the initial theory that it was a murder and deepens the investigations to determine the objective circumstances of the case and file charges against the accused before the courts.
fled to the church
The Public Ministry explained that Cruz de la Mota, 56 years old, committed the act in Jorge Mera’s office, at the Environment headquarters, on Luperón Avenue, in the capital, and then fled to The Church Jesus Christ, High and Eternal Priestlocated in the Real urbanization.
In the religious temple, Cruz de la Mota handed the gun to a priest, to whom he explained that he had committed a crime, although he did not identify the victim.
After Deputy Attorney General Berenice Reynoso found out that the perpetrator was in the parishmade contact by telephone with the person under investigation, who expressed his willingness to surrender if his life was guaranteed.
After that conversation, Berenice Reynoso went to the church, accompanied by the director of the National Police, Major General Eduardo Alberto Then and the head of the Central Directorate of Investigation (Dicrim), General Amaury Van Troi Tejada Cruzwho were from the beginning in the investigations.
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After surrendering, Cruz de la Mota was taken to the PGR building, where he was still under interrogation last night.
From early hours, journalists were stationed there, waiting to see if the prisoner was transferred to the Ciudad Nueva jail, which at the end of this edition had not happened.
Escape in the midst of chaos
After the rumor circulated that the killer was barricaded in an office with hostages, it was later learned that Cruz de la Mota had left in the middle of the chaos due to the shots and took refuge in the parish.
tension and confusion
After knowing the fact, anguish, confusion and great uncertainty reigned, both inside and outside the building that houses the Environment offices.
A police contingent sealed the doors of the enclosure and employees or visitors were not allowed to enter or exit, except for the press crowded in search of answers.
Employees of the institutions cried Embraced by the impact of the news, they looked for support while they waited in the large garden.
Only ambulances from the National Health Service (SNS)motorized units and some leaders of the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM), relatives and friends of Jorge Mera.
The lack of official information gave rise to much speculation and only some of the officials had access and talked to the press when they left.
At 2:12 in the afternoon, Geanilda Vásquez showed up in a visible state of shock. “A people that we knew; We do not understand. Collaborator for many years. A very great misfortune. We are totally shocked,” she said as she tried to make her way through the melee.
One who asked to wait for the result of the investigations was the Minister of Public Health, Daniel Riverawho plunged into sadness boarded his vehicle and left silence in response, when asked if he had seen the body of the official.
The senator Richard of the Saints, also recommended waiting for the investigations. “We all know that we are facing a crime that has shocked the whole of society. We come here to show solidarity with the family”, he expressed.
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The official congressman for Sánchez Ramírez considered it important that the levels of security for people be reinforced who make political life.
“He was a son to us and he still is, Asela and Salvador left him to me.” This was the expression almost on the verge of tears of the journalist Guillermo Gómez, a close friend of the deceased and who was allowed to enter.
He added that as far as he was aware there were no other people injured, apart from the deceased.
At 3:39 in the afternoon, an unusual movement by the Police put journalists on alert, as an ambulance from the National Institute of Forensic Sciences (Inacif) was trying to leave.
A human chain of agents and a motorcycle escort and a white SUV immediately entered the scene. This implied that the body was being carried in the emergency vehicle, as indeed it was.
