The lowest level of violence marked the 2020 electoral campaign in decades. And then on election day, 56-year old Julio César Pérez was shot to death. He was buried at the Cristo Redentor Cemetery and his family demands justice.
Andy Sánchez Doñé is fugitive, and suspect of having fired the shots that killed Perez. Nevertheless, those close to the deceased accuse the administrator of the Moscoso Puello Public Hospital, Grepi Polanco of the killing that occurred after a heated political debate on the outskirts of the Politécnico Nuestra Señora del Carmen polling station in the Simón Bolívar neighborhood.
At the funeral, his son, Bernardo Pérez said that there was not an exchange of shots, but instead Andy Sánchez Doñé, together with two security of administrative director Gelpi Polanco Gómez blasted their bullets against his father. Others were injured, namely 30-year old Yan Luis González, who was injured together with his sister 18-year old Luz María Díaz, and 44-year old Andres Guzmán. They say that around 20 bullet caskets were recovered at the site of the crime.
News media analysts are asking why did a public hospital administrator have so many security guards. Local prosecutors are investigating the case.
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El Caribe
9 July 2020