This Sunday, members of the Bolivarian National Police (PNB) arrested Víctor Manuel Méndez Morillo (43), alias “El Vitico”, the material author of the murder of Alejandro Andrés Fermín Royé, son of the academic, lawyer and politician Claudio Fermín, an event that occurred in Caracas in 2013.
The man detained today had been on the run since 2010 from the Yare I Judicial Detention Center, located in the state of Miranda, where he was held for a series of crimes. His new capture occurred on Thursday, October 17, in the Ojos de Chávez urban development, located between Lecuna and Bolívar avenues.
Agents of the Bolivarian National Police were in the aforementioned urban planning on the trail of individuals who had plagued the community and its surroundings.
After investigations into the identities of some citizens, the data of a subject by the name of Juan Germán Escalona Bello was confirmed, who when questioned showed “a suspicious, evasive and nervous attitude”, which is why he was transferred by the Police National to be questioned.
Minutes later, the detainee said he was using a false name. It was discovered that it was Víctor Manuel Méndez Morillo, alias “El Vitico”, who in police records appeared as one of the most wanted and requested criminals in the country.
The murder
In the early morning of February 4, 2013, Alejandro Andrés Fermín Royé (34 years old) received a bullet wound to the head that caused his death, after being intercepted by several individuals to steal his vehicle.
The homicide occurred at his residence, located in the La Estancia de Los Chorros urbanization, Sucre municipality, Miranda state.
Another of those involved in the crime responds to the name of Néstor Escalona.
By then the case was assigned to the 121st prosecutor’s office of the Caracas metropolitan area.
