Professor Santiago Morgado was assassinated for 200,000 pesos. It is the price for which the Suzuki motorcycle that was stolen last July 1 in Sancti Spíritus was sold. before murdering him. The news has been revealed along with other details of the crime by the official newspaper Escambray.
As explained by the investigation, of the five involved in the death of the professor from Sancti Spiritus – all of them in provisional prison since his arrest on July 11– Two were the perpetrators. One of them, apparently, usually hired his transportation service and knew him well, so he sensed that it would be easy to take him to a point where he could commit the crime.
The first of the alleged murderers led Morgado to El Capitolio, a town in the People’s Council of Banao, where, hidden in the undergrowth, the second man was waiting. The attackers used a stick and a stone, as well as two pieces of agricultural machinery that they used to submerge the professor’s body in a well up to three meters deep.
A third man was in charge of driving the red Suzuki to Vertientes, in Camagüey, where the fourth involved tried to sell it for 800,000, although he finally had to make a considerable reduction. The fifth detainee was the intermediary of the sale.
Sources of the investigation told that the track of the helmet, found by acquaintances of the professor, was decisive to reach the well and find the metallic pieces that helped to clarify the case.
Of the five involved, aged between 28 and 45, three are residents of Banao, one in the same town, another in El Pinto and the third in El Capitolio. The other two are from Vertientes, from which it follows that the crimes occurred in places they knew well.
With the participation of the two direct perpetrators, a reconstruction of the events was carried out, a process in which it was shown that they used the rental of the motorcycle with the intention of murdering its owner to steal it and later market it.
In the note of Escambray, the authorities insist on admitting the relevance of citizen collaboration to clarify the crime. The family and friends carried out the first investigations and denounced, at first, that the Police were further behind than they were.
Morgado, 62, disappeared at noon on July 1 and his acquaintances were the ones who found his motorcycle helmet on the road through El Pinto. Three days later, on Monday the 4th, they found the glasses and a shoe, near the well where, hours later, the firefighters recovered the body.
Although the official newspaper insists that Morgado’s murder was an “event that, due to its violent nature, kept Sancti Spiritus on alert,” three days had passed since the independent press reported of the event when Escambray echoed.
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