A man, a native of Chocó, who according to authorities, had several criminal records. He attacked his victims with a machete, he was a tenant and the collection of late rent would have unleashed the tragedy in Fontibón.
News Bogota.
Manuel Moreno Valois, a native of Istmina, Chocó, was killed by the Police after committing the heinous crimes, four people died and two were injured. The attack was with a machete, in the La Laguna neighborhood, in Fontibón.
Valois, according to neighbors, was dedicated to selling fruit and markets in a cart, they knew him in the Free Zone there in Fontibón “as a quiet man.”
The police arrived but the man would not give up.
Because they charged him the rent, the tenant became enraged and “killed them” in Bogotá
On the day of the massacre he committed, he would have been charged rent for the rented space in which he lived, after a short discussion, he attacked his tenant first; Hilma González, 82 years old, to Sofia Pulecio, 19 years old, Orlando Gutiérrez, 51 years old and José Manuel Gutiérrez, 83 years old.
Two more people were saved, one hid and another, Hilma’s sister, jumped from a second floor.
The subject committed two homicides in the house where he lived as a tenant, then fleeing, he climbed onto the roof and fell into the neighboring house, where relatives of the victims lived and also attacked them.
The neighbors, upon hearing the screams, tried to enter but saw the enraged tenant with the machete, and they alerted the police.
Patrols were unable to enter due to the threat and Valois’s altered state.
In the town of Fontibón, word of the massacre in a tenement house quickly spread. Videos from the streets began to go viral.
The balance at the end: four dead, two wounded. And the designated murderer, killed by the police.
had a record
Among the details revealed by the authorities in Bogotá, is that the man was not a foreigner as some neighbors initially said, but was a native of Chocó.
In his SPOA, antecedents such as:
- Attempted homicide (they did not offer more details about this fact)
- qualified theft
- Illegal possession of weapons
However, no alert was given regarding his behavior hours before the massacre of the family with which he lived as a tenant.
A “quiet” tenant, the Fontibón massacre
Therefore, the motives or what could have triggered his state to commit the multiple crime last Saturday, in broad daylight, is still unknown.
From the way it was and how the bodies and the location were found, it wouldn’t have been a planned crime. Since the police had to kill him to “prevent more deaths of innocents”, the investigation could take longer into what happened to Valois to trigger the murders.
What is presumed is that given his background in Itsmina, he decided to leave Chocó. It is not known if he was in any other city before arriving in Bogotá.
