The National Police reported this Tuesday afternoon that it identified and actively pursues the person who killed the young man Wendell Alejandro Almonte Veloz, 28, attacked by gunfire on Charles de Gaulle Avenue, in Santo Domingo Este, while driving a vehicle.
He murder it happened last morning Saturday. The victim was communicator’s son Alejandro Almonte.
According to the law enforcement report, the alleged perpetrator goes by the name of Rafael Laureano of the Saints, alias” Cabito“, 36 years old, who is an active sergeant major and worked as an administrative driver for the National Police.
- The spokesperson for the entity, Diego Pesqueira He explained that the evidence collected “irrefutably” identifies and links the member of the National Police, Rafael Laureano of the Saints, ” Cabito“.
Almonte Veloz was shot at by a person traveling in a motorcycleaccording to the preliminary police report, when the incident was reported.
After being shot, the young man was taken to a health centerwhere he died.
The sequence of events
During a press conference at the Palace of the National PolicePesqueira indicated that at 7:45 in the morning on Saturday, October 12, the aggressor stopped at an intersection on Charles de Gaulle Avenue, where he had contact with the victim. So far there is no information about the friction.
Later, “Cabito” chased the communicator’s son and at approximately 7:47 he took out the firearm with which he shot the young man from the rear of the vehicle, until he lost control and hit a light pole on the aforementioned road. The attacker then fled aboard the motorcycle.
- “We do not know if he acted with his service weapon, but we are working together with the Public Ministry to reinforce information about the case,” said the institution’s spokesperson.
“We have carried out several raids and we have not found the whereabouts of the murderer. Nor the reasons that motivated him, we continue to actively work on the case,” Pesqueira emphasized.
In a video that was posted online last Saturday by his father, communicator and lawyer Alejandro Almonte, he accused a police sergeant of having committed the murder.
Almonte Veloz was driving a red Hyundai Elantra car with license plate A968431, while his attacker was traveling on a blue Bajaj motorcycle.
Early this Tuesday morning, search warrant No. 530-EMES-2024-02058 was executed at the fugitive’s residence, where he has not appeared since Saturday morning.
