The Sancti Spíritus Police arrested the murderer of a 19-year-old boy, Yanquiel Jiménez Hernández, stabbed in Jatibonico on February 15, and three other people involved. The defendant, who was seized “a small folding knife” with which he attacked the youth, confessed this Saturday and will remain in prison until his trial is held.
Jiménez’s death occurred between 2:00 and 2:30 a.m. The wounded man was able to go out onto the public highway to ask for help, bleeding, according to the local press. He was transferred to the emergency department of the Jatibonico hospital and died there, “given the seriousness of the injuries and the massive loss of blood.”
The official cause of death was the stab wound that Jiménez suffered on the right side of the neck, made with a knife that advanced to the superior vena cava and caused hypovolemic shock. The Police allege that he acted quickly, creating a joint work team with the Technical Department of Investigation and Criminalistics.
In the same place of the crime, according to the newspaper Escambray, The agents arrested several people involved. The investigation revealed that Jiménez’s stabbing occurred after a “discussion between several people” who are now also detained to “establish the level of responsibility of each one,” the authorities said.
The investigation revealed that the stabbing of Jiménez occurred after a “discussion between several people”, who are now also detained.
It was also learned that the young man had been stabbed by a single attacker. Five days later – on Saturday the 18th – the Police identified the murderer, who confessed to his crime and helped “of his own free will” to reconstruct the events. Likewise, he pointed out where he had thrown the weapon, which he carried on his body.
The murderer indicated that the motive for his attack was “a fight” between Jiménez and a “friend or link” of his. Until the Prosecutor’s Office deals with his case, he will remain in pretrial detention as a precautionary measure.
some readers of Escambray They commented on the event, and indicated, among other opinions, that the official press should address “the issue of violence” more frequently. Others pointed to the growing trend of “so many young people” who “go out to parties carrying bladed weapons.”
The escalation of violence on the island, aggravated by scarcity and the economic crisis, has worsened in recent months. For their part, Cubans distrust justice, which does not treat murderers and criminals with the same severity as those detained for political reasons.
Last December, one of the five people implicated in the murder of professor Santiago Morgadowhose corpse was thrown into a well in Sancti Spíritus in July 2022, was bailment. The investigation process of the Morgado case exposed the delay in the actions of the authorities and the increasing level of violent robberies in the country.
The professor was murdered after stealing his Suzuki motorcycle, which the murderers They tried to sell for 200,000 pesos in Camaguey. After the attack, they used a stick, a stone, and various pieces of farm machinery to lower the Morgado’s body into the well. It was the deceased’s acquaintances, and not the Police, who launched the investigation on their own. The agents, as usual, were slow to get up.
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