The National Police has said that no one has been arrested in the case of the death of Cuban-American Joaquín Miguel Perea Jr, who was found dead on Easter Thursday at 4.45pm on the roof of a shop warehouse. According to Police spokesman, Frank Félix Durán the case is presumed to be a suicide and no one has been arrested, however, they are interviewing people known to be close to the victim. Perea Jr., was the general manager of a chain of restaurants and died when he fell from the eighth floor of an apartment building in the Piantini sector of the National District.
The preliminary report says that the head of one of the restaurant locations told authorities that he had received a text message from the wife of the deceased, who is in the United States, asking him to go to the apartment as she found it strange that her husband had not answered calls nor messages since 7 pm on Wednesday 18 April 2019.
He went to the apartment, where one of the security guards, having received permission from the wife of the victim by phone, took him to the apartment that was locked from the inside. The wife gave permission to break in and see if there were any signs of forced entry or an open window. At that stage. the body was seen on the roof below.
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24 April 2019