As Silfredo Alfonso Mercado Cerpa, 22 years old, known as Junior, and Iván Andrés Lerma Castillejo, the men murdered with a firearm impact to the head were identified, in events recorded in the Doce de Octubre invasion of the town of La Vega, on the road that leads to the Saloa village, municipality of Chimichagua, Cesar,
After the double murder occurred, which occurred last Monday night, the people who were close to the wounded tried to help them, but when they approached them they verified that they were without vital signs.
Likewise, residents of the sector pointed out that the hitmen traveled on high-displacement motorcycles and then left the invasion at high speed without leaving a trace.
Judicial officials were present at the scene of the homicides and carried out the removal of the bodies. The motives for this event are still unknown.
With these homicides, it is the third violent death that has been recorded in the rural area of the municipality of Chimichagua in less than 24 hours. The previous case happened inside a pasture where a man known as ‘El Yuquero’ was killed with a firearm.