The prosecution of this province obtained three months of preventive detention against a man who killed another with a shot to the chest in the municipality Villa Rivas.
Judge Josefina Noemí Díaz, of the Judicial Office of Permanent Attention Services of the Duarte province, issued the coercive measure against Antony Rosario Pena (Chinito and/or Antony Rosario Díaz), accused of causing the death of Reyes Velez Amparo.
The event occurred in the early morning hours of May 22, 2022, at a time when the deceased today was in a place on Juana Rodríguez street in the David neighborhood, of the aforementioned municipality, registering the altercation in an alleged place of traffic of controlled substances.
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The application of measure of coercion points out that at a time when the victim decided to leave the premises bound for home, he was intercepted by the accused, who pointed a revolver at him and, without saying a word, shot him in the chest, which caused his death.
The defendant then pointed a gun at another person and shot him, proceeding to take the controlled substances and money, starting to flee.
Subsequently, he was arrested on May 23 by court order.
at the time of being caught the revolver used to commit the act, which he was carrying without any documentation, was seized.
The court ordered Rosario Peña to comply with the coercion measure at the Vista al Valle Correction and Rehabilitation Center (CCR) in San Francisco de Macorís.
