Johana Guayguacundo was a journalist and was found with signs of suffocation on February 2, 2022.
Carlos Fernando E., was called to trial for the femicide of Johana Guayguacundo29-year-old journalist, found dead on February 2, 2022.
Lto State Attorney General’s Office ratified the preventive detention against Carlos Fernando E., ex-partner and main suspect of Guayguacundo’s femicide.
Case Background
The boss of the Dinased in Quito, Iván Naranjo reported that after the autopsy it was determined that the young woman’s death was due to strangulation. “A scarf was found as a constricting element that caused her death,” the officer said.
Once the body was identified, the Police carried out investigations in the journalist’s family and friends. That’s how they found out that she had been dating someone. She “she met a person who months ago had had a romantic relationship. The search was done there.”
Agents then checked security cameras near the scene and noted that the alleged assailant, a 28-year-old man, and the girl had been on the third-order road. That they had arrived on a motorcycle and that only he left the site.
For this reason, they carried out a raid on the house where the young man lived, about 700 meters from the place where the death occurred and they arrested him.
Johanna Gabriela was founder and deputy director for five years of the media Wambra Toad. In addition, she was a contributor to the digital media Ruta Crítica.
The portal published a statement in which it lamented the death of the communicator. “Companion, friend sister. Our beloved Jhou was taken from us, her life, her projects, her dreams were cut short. They deprived us of that joy that she transmitted to all of us who knew her, our hearts are broken, ”says the publication. (AVV)
