At 1:30 in the afternoon this Friday, several units of the Bogotá Metropolitan Police arrived outside a church in the capital where funeral services were being held.
The authorities attended to the place after hearing several gunshots that had been detonated outside the religious center, which caused confrontations between several attendees and the uniformed officers.
READ ALSO
The identity of the deceased
The funeral in Bogotá interrupted by shooting. Photo:Private file
In videos posted on social networks, At least 10 uniformed officers are seen dispersing the crowd that had tried to attack the officers with blunt objects. As well as several funeral wreaths that ended up on the ground after the brawl.
In addition, several uniformed officers are seen entering the religious premises and the priest of the church trying to mediate the discussion. According to preliminary versions, the confrontation left two people injured.
The Investigative Unit of TIME established that in the church Santa Lucía, in the town of Rafael Uribe Uribe, The funeral services were being held for Johan Sebastián Velandia Sabino, 22 years old.
According to the autopsy certificate, Velandia Sabino died last Monday, October 12 in Bogotá at the El Tunal hospital.
READ ALSO
The record
This is the deceased from the funeral that ended in a shooting in the Rafael Uribe Uribe town in Bogotá. Photo:Social networks and private archive
The deceased had a criminal history that is already being investigated by authorities.
This newspaper had access to the file against Velandia Sabino, for the crime of qualified and aggravated theft in heterogeneous competition with intentional personal injuries in January 2024.
According to the file, he was captured along with his younger brother, Keiner Alexánder Velandia, But Criminal Court 8 of Bogotá did not grant legality to the detention, arguing flaws in the constitutional provisions, so both were released.
And in a hearing on January 2 of that same year, to which this newspaper had access, the prosecutor in the case reported that two police officers were called for an alleged fight on Carrera 17 and Calle 19 Sur.
At the scene, they found a man who had been stabbed in the back. and directly pointed out Sebastián Velandia and his brother as his aggressors. The events would have been generated by the theft of a sum of cash, a gold chain and a ring.
INVESTIGATIVE UNIT
u.investigativa@eltiempo.com
@UinvestigativaET
Follow us now on Facebook
