A brawl at the La Victoria Jail resulted in the death of three people and ten injured on Sunday, 16 January 2022. The prison authorities identified the dead as Juan Nicolás Ovalles Ferrán (El Mello), 30; Pedro Luis Moreno Díaz, 31, and Rafael Batista (Rasputín), 35.
The Listin Diario reports the brawl is the latest case in a long list of incidents involving firearms in the hands of inmates in the country’s prisons.
According to a first report offered by the Attorney General Office, the incident occurred around 1am on Sunday when two groups of inmates clashed violently, causing the tragedy.
The authorities reported the deceased were in jail for firearms and drug trafficking crimes.
A jail community leader Juan Leger told a Hoy newspaper reporter: “The police chief should investigate who gave the key at 10pm to Cangrejo to kill those people. The culprits of these...
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