Two Venezuelans were murdered by two alleged assassins in a busy commercial sector in the center of Bogotá at noon on Saturday, September 17.
The two assassins, as revealed by the videos of the security cameras of an establishment, took advantage of the fact that their potential victims were in a street stall in the area to repeatedly attack them with a firearm, he reported on his website. Week.
Lieutenant Colonel Edwin Castilblanco, Commander of Citizen Security of the Policeman Metropolitan, revealed that one of the Venezuelans He died immediately at the scene while the other was urgently transferred to a medical center where his death was reported.
The video from the security camera also recorded the arrival of four police officers running to the place where the gunmen would be on 13th Street.
In the pursuit, one of those involved in the crime was captured by the agents who provided security in the area.
The authorities are conducting an investigation to establish the motives of this double murder of Venezuelans in Bogotá.
Insecurity in Bogota
The insecurity figures in Bogotá are in the red.
Figures recently published by the president of the Bogotá Council, Samir Abisambra, reveal that in the Colombian capital there have been more than 370 robberies on vehicular bridges and more than 650 on pedestrian bridges this year.
From January to July of this year, some 1,027 people have approached the police stations in the towns of Bogotá to report these events, about four a day.
It should be taken into account that during this period 549 complaints were received for theft of people and 105 for theft of bicycles on pedestrian bridges, with the towns of Fontibón, Engativá and Suba being the most affected.
