Eight people were murdered during the New Year’s Eve celebration in Medellín

The mayor of Medellín, Federico Gutiérrez, gave the balance of the different situations that occurred during the night of December 31 and January 1.

Among the cases, there is a fight that occurred between two brothers in the Santo Domingo 2 neighborhood, a northeastern commune of Medellín, which He left as a victim a 5-year-old minor, who was attacked with a knife by her uncle.

The girl was taken to the Santo Domingo Savio Metrosalud center. The minor’s relative was captured. The mayor assured that the girl is out of danger.

“The mother arrives with the five-year-old girl at her brothers’ house, the mother leaves the girl with her sister and brother, she goes to the store to make some purchases, apparently, and when she returns, apparently, products a fight between sister and brother results in open wounds. The girl is fine, she was treated, she was discharged, It was necessary to put stitches on her and the doctors treated her well,” said the mayor.

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In addition, he reported that eight people were murdered. Among the homicides is a man in the Santa Cruz neighborhood who, in a high state of anger, went out to shoot in the air, leaving three people injured. After the incident, the man was murdered. While on the Twelfth of October, a possible settling of accounts between two people, It left five injured and one woman dead. The other homicides were carried out in La Candelaria, Belén and Castilla, leaving two people captured.

“Unfortunately, at 2:15 in the morning in a sector of Doce de Octubre, four people on motorcycles attacked six people, wounding them, the result is that at this moment, one of the people was seriously injured, A woman loses her life and died in a care center, There were other people with delicate injuries and others required outpatient care,” said Federico Gutiérrez.

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Regarding the calls made by citizens to emergency line 123, 6,764 were registered, of which 2,568 were classified as inadmissible. 705 were reports of fights, 720 for disturbance of peace and 147 cases of domestic violence.

Likewise, eleven people were captured for different crimes.119 citizens were transferred for protection and 2,110 summonses were applied, 50 related to the use and marketing of gunpowder and 1.2 tons of gunpowder were seized.

It should be noted that the city had a security and prevention device cmade up of more than 1,280 police officers and 14 reactions motorized.