The Honduran National Police announced this Saturday the capture of six members of the Mara Salvatrucha (MS13) allegedly involved in the murder of four young men on Thursday, including a son of former President Porfirio Lobo (2010-2014).
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“As a result of the efforts and investigations, the identification and capture of six members of the criminal structure were achieved, including one who commonly presented himself as a police officer,” said the director of the National Police, Gustavo Sánchez, at a press conference. press at the Presidential House.
The institution has made “significant progress in clarifying” the crime, which “unfortunately” has filled several Honduran families with mourning, he said. Sanchez stated that At least 11 people belonging to the Mara Salvatrucha (MS13) participated in the murder and that the attack was directed at Said Lobo Bonilla, son of the former Honduran president. “We are in an investigation process, we have made a lot of progress in 48 hours (…), there are different hypotheses that we are ruling out and investigating,” explained the police chief.
According to unofficial information, the MS13 was paid at least $200,000 for the murder of the four men. The young people were shot to death in the Honduran capital when they left a building where they were in a nightclub in two cars, according to initial investigations.
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The multiple crime was recorded around 02:00 local time on Thursday (08:00 GMT) at the exit of the parking lot of the Torre Morazán building, on the banks of a boulevard in the Honduran capital. The two vans in which the four men were traveling, all friends, were left at the exit of the building’s parking lot. The other young people killed are Luis Zelaya, 23, a relative of the former head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the Armed Forces, Romeo Vásquez; Salomón Velásquez and Norlan Enrique Rodríguez, who was Lobo Bonilla’s driver. Teams from four intelligence and investigation units participate in the work, under the coordination of prosecutors from the Public Ministry, the Honduran Police said in a statement.
The security forces located one of the vehicles that was used during the crime, from which “indication of vital importance was extracted that allows us to advance in a technical and scientific way” in the investigation, he added. In addition, they have seized the detainees, including a woman, two firearms and fourteen mobile phones.
Criminal violence in Honduras leaves an average of between ten and thirteen deaths per day, according to police sources and human rights organizations.
EFE
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