Police search for missing gun after market murder
The Prosecutor’s Office and the Police of the Salitre cantonin the province of Guayas, this Saturday, January 11, 2025, several investigations were carried out to discover who took a revolver that was near the body of Eddy Fortunato León Villamarín, a young man shot on the afternoon of Friday, January 10, inside the local market. .
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Eddy Leon20 years old, according to witnesses, was talking with a friend near a cell phone accessories repair and sales store, when a subject approached him and shot him three times, hitting him in the head and back. The victim collapsed before the helplessness of his friend and local merchants.
After the attacker ran to board a motorcycle that was waiting for him, photographs of the shot man on the floor were spread on social networks, and in one of the images it can be seen that there was a revolver near the body. However, when the police arrived, the gun was gone. The scene of the attack was altered.
They didn’t steal anything
He prosecutor Edison Daquilema He pointed out that shell casings were found at the crime scene and that reviewing the security cameras will provide more clues about the murder, which was allegedly selective, since the man was not robbed.
Some relatives of the victim told the authorities that the murdered young man lived next to them, one block from the market, and that they did not know the motives for the crime.
As of press time, authorities were still looking for clues to determine who murdered León and what happened to the gun that was near his body, whether it belonged to the victim or was left by the gunman.
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