In the middle of a caravan of mourners, who accompanied Nathalia Alarcón’s coffin, on Wednesday morning, a shootout broke out in a neighborhood of Cúcuta that left a woman dead and two other people injured.
Initially it was believed that they were stray bullets, but now a vendetta between criminal gangs with tentacles in Venezuela is being investigated. The Investigative Unit of EL TIEMPO established that the dead mourner, identified as Cindy Johanna Lizcano Ochoa and who was shot 8 times, was prosecuted along with the leader of a gang.
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The first attack
Natalia Alarcón, 22, was murdered by hitmen in Cúcuta. Photo:Private file
What is known so far is that Nathalia Alarcón, 22 years old, had just left La Modelo prison in Cúcuta for a conjugal visit, when she was intercepted by hitmen in the El Salado sector. Security cameras recorded the escape of the hitmen after shooting him three times.
His family assures that She was a nursing student and had two children.
And it is known about her dead friend that she had house arrest and an Inpec bracelet. The Investigative Unit of EL TIEMPO established with judicial sources that a process was being followed for carrying weapons in which Javier Anynson Torrado Jaimes also appears.
The latter is accused of being a member of a criminal gang of freight forwarders known as ‘that of Veneco’. He already had an arrest, dating back to 2015, for a case of aggravated robbery.
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The lawyer’s version
Cindy Johana Lizcano was murdered in Cúcuta while attending a funeral caravan. Photo:Private file
The Investigative Unit of EL TIEMPO contacted the criminal lawyer Diego León, Cindy Lizcano’s attorney who said that his client had no criminal record: “He had electronic surveillance, but it had not yet been proven that he was guilty of the charges. We were in the trial stage.”
The criminal lawyer León also assured that There was a hearing to request the removal of the bracelet and for the young woman to be able to leave Cúcuta due to the threats that her client had received from groups outside the law, but the Prosecutor’s Office did not attend the hearing.
This diary had access to the indictment that is today part of the investigation into the death of Lizcano and that of her friend.
The facts They occurred on February 14, 2021 in the El Hueco sector, in the Siete neighborhood of Belén.
According to the document, when two police officers were carrying out search tasks, Lizcano received from Javier Anynson Torrado Jaimes a 32 millimeter caliber firearm with 5 7.65 millimeter caliber cartridges. In addition, two cell phones were seized.
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