Investigative actions carried out by the Attorney General’s Office made it possible to identify and prosecute Juan Esteban Vega Rodas and Miguel Ángel Caicedo Pulgarín, two of the alleged perpetrators of the crime of three people and the injuries caused to another in events that occurred on September 19, in the village of Los Cocuyos in Ginebra (Valle del Cauca).

Armed men entered a home and, amid intimidation, forced its occupants, two of them 16-year-old teenagers, to leave the property. Later, they were shot. Three of the victims died at the scene and one of the minors was taken to a care center where his life was saved.

The evidence shows that Vega Rodas would have ordered the armed attack; while Caicedo Pulgarín would have been in charge of executing him and firing his firearm.

In that sense, a prosecutor from the Valle del Cauca Section presented them before a guarantee control judge and charged them with the crimes of aggravated homicide, attempted aggravated homicide; and manufacturing, trafficking, carrying or possession of firearms, accessories, parts or ammunition.

The defendants did not accept the charges and must comply with a security measure in a prison.

This information is published for reasons of general interest.

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