The relatives of two of the three victims shot to death by Police in Capotillo demanded justice for the victims. When the investigating commission visited the barrio to offer to pay for funeral costs, grant relatives of the dead a pension and to lobby for new homes for the victims, the community reaction surprised members of the commission. Marisol Perez, wife of the late Jose Alejandro Morales and mother of four, said, “I do not want a house or money. What I want is justice.” The mother of 17-year-old Marcos Ezequiel Olivares Nivar said her son made a living driving a motoconcho. “He was not a delinquent. He never had a gun. In front of my house there was a drug-selling post and many police go there,” she said. Community leaders frequently have denounced police agents who collect pay offs in exchange for ignoring the drug trafficking operations in the barrio.
