Valeska London
Age 324 Sep 2024
Barranquilla, Atlántico (Colombia)
Shot
TDoR list ref: tgeu/tdor2024/4-Sep-2024/Valeska London
Valeska was one of two people shot in what authorities believe may have been an attack connected to extortion. The other victim - a security guard - survived.
Authorities have released new details about the criminal attack that occurred at 9:30 pm on Wednesday September 4 in the Los Olivos II neighborhood, which left a trans woman dead and an informal security guard injured.
Early in the morning, information had emerged about the attack that took place in front of a business on Carrera 27 and Calle 111, where the victims [deadnmae] Villegas Puerta, 32, and Levis Enrique Chacin Sequera, 19, were.
In that first version, witnesses told the authorities that the victims were standing outside a liquor store when the criminal was passed by and shot repeatedly.
Villegas Puerta, who identified herself as Valeska London and belonged to the LGBTIQ community, died as a result of the shooting. Meanwhile, Chacin Sequera, an informal security guard, was injured and had to be transferred to the La Manga neighborhood hospital.
Regarding the motives for this incident, judicial sources indicated that the attack was based on the collection of extortion from the owners of the business where the victims were staying, as a method of pressure so that they would pay a sum close to 10 million pesos. The line of investigation also points to a subject known as alias Carlos Muleta, a zone chief of 'los Costeños' who would receive direct orders from alias Castor.
This same subject, according to judicial sources, would be the same one who ordered the murder of Ener Claudina Núñez, which occurred inside a house in the La Paz neighborhood the previous week.
https://www.elheraldo.co/judicial/ataque-tiros-en-el-barrio-los-olivos-un-muerto-y-un-herido-1123629
