As soon as he graduated as a third -party third in 1989, Ángel Beauty was highlighted to the hot areas of Alto Huallaga and Ucayali, where the terrorists of the Shining Path and the “signatures” of powerful drug traffickers were swarmed.
Precisely, on the morning of murder day, on Friday 11, the Brigadier Ángel Beauty integrated the protection escort of the Lava Jato team coordinator, the superior prosecutor Rafael Vela Barba. He touched him the next day, Saturday 12.
According to sources from the State Security Directorate, Ángel Beauty Zapata worked 24 x 24. That is, a day of work for a day of Franco.
The Brigadier Beauty did extra work to pay the university of their two children. The nearly 4,000 monthly soles that he perceived did not reach him.
This year Angel Beauty Zapata retired after 35 years of services to the National Police. Photo: The Republic
A police tragedy
“He was an exemplary and loving father. And most importantly, very Christian. He was always aware of his children and his family ”Sara Esphichán, Widow of Brigadier Beauty, said. The Republic He found her in the central morgue of Lima. She was waiting for her husband’s remains.
The brothers of Ángel Beauty and his promotion companions of the National Police School accompanied the disconsolate of the National Police School, who ran from one place to another processing the withdrawal of the body of the unfortunate police to transfer him to his home in Pachacámac, south of Lima. They expected him in addition to his relatives, dozens of neighbors in the neighborhood, where he was very respected and loved.
“Like every police, we do not have departure schedule. An example is the case of our beauty promotion, which was a Professional to full and very responsible letter in the mission entrusted by the police command ”Said the president of the promotion Luis Morales Palacios, Joaquín Grados Otárola.
“Angel was a very believing person and that Friday he left at 4 in the morning to go to his State Security Base at Rímac. He said goodbye as always, with a prayer,” recounted his wife Sara Espichán. I did not imagine that the father of his two children would never return.
On the night of Friday, April 11, Brigadier Beauty was driving the businessman’s truck Rafael Herrera, when he was shot dead. Photo: The Republic
He defended himself
On the night of Friday, April 11, at the height of block 5 of José Toribio Polo Street, in Miraflores, Ángel Beauty was driving the BJR-551 gray Porsche truck. I was waiting for businessman Rafael Herrera Zúñiga.
A black car approached and the occupants opened fire with the purpose of killing the one in the steering wheel.
Testimonies of witnesses collected by the agents of the Homicide Investigation Division of the Directorate of Criminal Investigation (Dirincri), informed the Republic that the Brigadier Angel beauty defended himself with his regulation weapon. However, due to the superiority of the number of armed criminals, beauty ended up seriously injured. It was 9 and 30 at night.
The sources mentioned that Brigadier Beauty received three bullet impacts. One in the head and two in the thorax. Still with signs of life was helped by an ambulance of the Fire Company that led him to the Delgado Clinic, in Miraflores. Emergency was intervened for the extraction of a projectile housed in the skull. But it wasn’t enough.
A medical board declared it with brain death. Four days after agony, he died.
Promotion companion made the honor guard during the wake of Brigadier Ángel Beauty, at his home in Pachacámac. Photo: The Republic
Hero’s reception
The Remains of Brigadier Ángel Beauty were veiled in his humble housing Located on Ricardo Palma Street, in the Pachacámac district. His childhood friends from the neighborhood and Isaias Ardiles school attended, where the cash studied.
The Superior Prosecutor Rafael Vela attended the funeral to say goodbye to who his escort and friend for more than two decades Vela confirmed that in the morning of the murder day, Ángel Beauty was at home coordinating the protection service for the next day.
“He was an excellent person, a very good police and professional in his work. I met Angel very young, when he started his first steps in his career, because he It was my father’s escort (Carlos Vela Marquillo), who was a member of the Election Jury ”Prosecutor Rafael Vela recalled.
All the friends of the neighborhood, colleagues, police and family colleagues joined to say goodbye to the copy Brigadier Ángel Beauty Zapata. Photo: The Republic
Saving lives until the end
“Angel was an impeccable man with an impeccable career . And I found it again when I was designated to integrate my escort from 2023. I was the chief of greatest graduation in my escort. On the morning of the day of the attack, I was in his day of Franco at my home. He came to coordinate the actions of the service of the next day, ”said Vela.
“The problem that is normally in the police is that their salaries are quite low and they have to find other activities to meet their family budget,” said the Coordinator of the Special Lava Jato team.
The former head of the National Office of Electoral Processes (ONPE), Fernando Tuesta Soldevilla, with whom Brigadier beauty also worked, and with whom he shared his fondness for Victoriano Alianza Lima team, upon learning of the tragedy he wrote on his Facebook account: “For four years you covered my back. Fast, intuitive, disciplined and friendly you knew security and conversation. When my public office ended, two decades ago, you did not stop being part of the family. You were our Guardian Angel, ”Fernando Tuesta wrote.
“A few days ago, nine bullets Segaron your life. It was not in the VRAEM, or in an operation against criminal gangs. It was while you handled the car of an entrepreneur in your free days, because as a police officer of the Police, your lean salary barely reached to sustain the future of your children. With enormous effort you managed to study in the best university. It is the only thing one can leave them,” said Tuesta.
Every morning that the Brigadier Ángel Beauty He was on service had to move for two hours by vehicle from the Pachacamac district to his work center in Lima. That routine did a lifetime, because in that place he grew up and lived with his family.
Four days after being diagnosed with brain death by a Medical Board of the Delgado Clinic, Ángel Beauty continued to save lives. His organs were donated to five people, including a minor. According to the relatives of the police, he had voluntarily declared before the National Registry of Identification and Civil Status (RENIEC) donate their bodies. With his kidney, liver and corneas he continued saving lives.
