He Public Ministry has presented a file that contains the Forensic reports issued by the National Institute of Forensic Sciences (INACIF), which provide key evidence on the events that occurred on September 10, 2025 in the La Barranquita sector, in the city of Santiago de los Caballeros, where five people were dead during a Police operation.
The case, which has been qualified as Extrajudicial execution By Wilson Camacho, director of the Persecution Attorney’s Office of the Public Ministry, has generated National shock due to the rawness of the operation and the circumstances surrounding the deaths.
According to the file, the Autopsy reportstoxicology, ballistics and analysis of gunpowder residues They reveal that Victims did not shoot firearms, had no controlled substances in their body, and that the projectiles that caused their deaths correspond to the regulation weapons assigned to the imputed police.
These elements point to a lethal action pattern by the Agentswhich contradicts the Initial version of a “Exchange of shooting“
The deceased were identified as Edward Bernardo Peña RodríguezJosé Vladimir Valerio Estévez, Carlos Enrique Guzmán Navarro (aka El Charly or Charli Chase), Elvis Antonio Jiménez Rodríguez and Julio Alberto Gómezall finalized in the same event.
The report of the National Institute of Forensic Sciences (INACIF) has revealed that all deaths were caused by projectile wounds of firearm, with homicidal legal etiology and death mechanism by Hemorrhagic shockindicating a quick and violent death.
The Toxicological exams practiced to the victims did not detect the presence of controlled substances such as cocaine, marijuana, opiates, methamphetamine or ecstasy, discarding consumption recent drugs.
No gunpowder traces in three of the victims
A key finding comes from Forensic analysis certificate No. 4125-2025, which determines that they were not detected gunpowder residues In the forearms or in the back of the hands of three of the victims: Peña RodríguezGuzmán Navarro and Valerio Estévez, suggesting that they did not fire firearms during the fact.
In contrast, they were found gunpowder residues In the bodies of Elvis Jiménez and Julio Gómez, although it is not specified whether this implies the use of weapons by them or if it was Secondary pollution.
Balistics link projectiles to weapons of imputed police
He Forensic Balistics Report number BF-RN-2025-0075 confirms that the caps and projectiles recovered in the scene coincide with the assigned weapons to the imputed police: José Ignacio Gómez Rodríguez, Yohandy EncarnaciónSocrates Fidel happy happy and Hairo Mateo Morillo.
- This evidence strengthens the accusation of Public Ministry About a lethal use and direct force by the Agents.
Videos corroborate participation of accused
Additionally, the Video analysis Made by the Department of Forensic computer science (IFRN-235-2025 Report) Validated images captured by USB and microSD memories that corroborate the presence and active participation of those accused in the crime scene.
Evidence in the vehicle
He Forensic certificate No. 4297-2025 also determined that they were found gunpowder residues on the right side of Mazda vehicle White in which some of the victims moved, which could indicate that they were attacked inside or from the vehicle.
- Medical Report No. 3,489-2025 indicates that the accused Yohandy Encarnación was injured with a perforous trauma In the left arm during the incident, and a Medical-Legal inability 30 -day provisional.
Based on reports issued by the INACIFhe Public Ministry He maintains that the operation in which the five people died was not a confrontation, but a homicidal act of violence with direct criminal responsibility of the Agents involved, who now face Homicide chargesexcessive use of strength and possible scene alteration.
