The Honduran Police captured Caleb Ernesto Rocha, 24, alleged perpetrator of the femicide with a firearm against her ex-partner, Karen Monserrat Blandón, 21, while she was breastfeeding her six-month-old baby.
Local media reported that the subject was arrested on Friday, July 8, by agents of the National Directorate of Border Police Services of Honduras in the village of Agua Caliente, in the municipality of Santa Fe, in the department of Ocotepeque.
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According to information provided by the authorities of the neighboring country, Rocha “was transferred to the instances of the Police Directorate of Investigations of the locality where the agents of the National Central Office of Interpol will coordinate his delivery to the Nicaraguan authorities, as established by the international deals”.
After the crime committed on July 5 against the young mother, the Nicaraguan Police spread a photograph of Ernesto Caleb Rocha Tercero, with the aim of finding his location. According to relatives of the victim, the subject tried to flee to the United States to avoid justice for the crime.
The tragedy that left a six-month-old girl an orphan occurred in the Carlos Fonseca neighborhood, in Managua, around nine in the morning. Witnesses assure that the young woman had just returned to her house and she was breastfeeding her child when she was attacked by her ex-partner.
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“Caleb arrived in his white car, entered the house and without saying a word shot the girl in the neck, while she was carrying her child and breastfeeding her,” they said.
The alleged femicide would have shot Karen Blandón, because she had ended her romantic relationship with him and was not willing to return, relatives of the victim told the media.
Blandón, who joins the growing list of victims of femicide, was a manicurist and specialized in doing acrylic nail work. So far, the Ortega Police have not referred to the capture.
Until the first quarter of this 2022, 22 femicides had been registered, 20 occurred in Nicaragua and two abroad (one in Panama and one in Costa Rica); according to statistics from the Violence Observatory of the Catholic organization for the Right to Decide (CDD).
