Fight between neighbors over a water tap ended in the murder of one of the husbands with at least 10 shots

According to a 1 minute and 43 second long video that circulated this Monday afternoon, it all begins with an argument between two neighbors, from adjacent houses, as Ramírez’s wife demands that Orozco’s spouse not turn off the key. passage of drinking water. The complaints between the two women continue, so both men go out to the garden..

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At a certain point, Ramírez takes out a gun, loads it and puts it in his waist, while the ladies continue in the fray. Orozco tried to hit Ramírez in the face and that is when the latter took out his gun and shot him. on 9 or 10 occasions.

Red Cross rescuers went to the scene, but upon arrival, the victim had already died. Orozco had several gunshot wounds to the chest, arms, head, back and other parts of the body.

The victim was a businessman, dedicated to private security matters. He was a naturalized Nicaraguan and the father of a one-year-old girl and a 19-year-old boy. According to data from the Civil Registry, he had been married for 20 years and before living in Escazú, he lived in La Peregrina de La Uruca.
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Erick Villalba, criminologist and former OIJ agent, pointed out that The country is going through a deep crisis of violence that causes “a feeling of collective stress, fear and a certain level of violence that some people have repressed”.

In the case of the condominium, he points out that among these neighbors there was possibly an aggressiveness that escalated over time, since in these cases there are events that precede the outburst of fury. “Surely, some time ago they had an argument, a few days later another, a few months later another, (…) that is, there was a progressive follow-up of the incident until it detonated in that explosion of anger that now has the perpetrator killing his victim “, considered.

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The criminologist Gerardo Castaing and the criminal lawyer Federico Campos agree that there was premeditation in this scene, since The aggressor loads the weapon and attacks the other subject in an excessive manner even though Orozco is unarmed. For both, this case qualifies as a qualified homicide.

Campos adds that in this case the principle of self-defense does not apply, since the aggression is disproportionate and irrational and nor would it be protected by the state of violent emotion, because the circumstance or discussion did not warrant a homicide.

In the five months and three days of 2024, the OIJ records 365 homicides throughout the country. San José is the province with the most cases since it reaches 93. The canton of Escazú only registers three murders, the same as Tibás and Moravia, while the cantons most affected by this crime are San José with 38 deaths, Alajuelita with 18 and Desamparados with 9.

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Troubles between neighbors have led to deadly outcomes on other occasions. In 2018, after an argument over a dog in the Manuel Mora neighborhood, in Barranca de Puntarenas, Santiago Martínez Mendoza, a 46-year-old Nicaraguan, died. The Police arrested two men, named González Pérez and Ramírez Solano, as well as a woman named González Pérez as suspects in that death.