Villa Altagracia.- The Public Ministry affirmed this Friday that the members of the National Police involved in the shooting death of a religious couple who were traveling in a car on the Duarte highway in March of last year should be sent to trial.
The Public Ministry, represented by Dalma Díaz, Nancy Ovalle and Eleuterio Reyes Navarro, requested that an order be issued to open a trial against the defendants.
Judge Kenty Nuesí, of the Villa Altagracia Investigating Court, since it is a complex process, set the reading of the ruling for next Friday, November 4, at 9:00 in the morning, where she will decide whether or not to send trial of the accused.
The case continues against César Maríñez Lora, Guillermo Rosario Melo, Emil Alexander Rincón Martes, Victorino Reyes Navarro, Domingo Perdomo Reyes, Norquis Rodríguez Jiménez, Ángel de los Santos, Anthony Castro Pérez and Juan Samuel Ogando Solís.
The group is serving preventive detention in different prisons for its connection to the shooting death of the husband and wife Elisa Muñoz Marte, 32 years old, and Joel Eusebio Díaz Ferrer, 35.
Also, they are attributed with incurring an attempted murder against the couple’s companions, the young Claudio Alberto Ramírez Lamais and Carlos José Pérez Báez.
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The file indicates that the event occurred on March 30, 2021, around 10:50 p.m., when the victims were traveling aboard a Kia brand vehicle, model K5, white, on the Duarte Highway, to level of Kilometer 45, after having participated in a religious event in Los Ganchos, in the municipality of Villa Altagracia.
It details that the spouses Díaz Ferrer and Muñoz Marte died of multiple injuries, while Ramírez Lamais was injured and Carlos Pérez Báez was unharmed.
It specifies that on that night, the defendant Maríñez Lora, after hearing through the National Police radio communication that the occupants of a white Hyundai car had committed several robberies in the Bonao municipality and that they were traveling in the direction to Santo Domingo, he went to kilometer 45, together with the accused Reyes Navarro, De los Santos, Rosario Melo (who was not on duty) and Rincón Martes.
He points out that a few minutes later two motorized units arrived at the scene made up of Domingo Perdomo Reyes, Norquis Rodríguez, Juan Samuel Ogando Solís and Anthony Castro.
The prosecution body indicates that the defendants improvised a checkpoint and blocked the road in order to stop the vehicles that were moving north-south.
Under these circumstances, when noticing the arrival of the spouses’ white Kia, they fired bursts of fire with weapons of various calibers and from different directions, without prior inspection of the car and its occupants.
The conduct of the accused was described as a violation of articles 2, 265, 266, 295, 296, 297 and 302, of the Dominican Penal Code, and article 66 of Law 631-16, for the Control and Regulation of Weapons, Ammunition and Related Materials.
Relatives of the victims participated in the hearing this Friday.
