The victim, identified as José Luis Alfaro Guevara, 23, was shopping at a mobile kiosk of a cell phone company.
“That’s life, here’s my son,” said Jose Elias Alfaro, at noon in front of the corpse of his son, killed yesterday at noon by alleged gangs at a gas station in Apopa, north of San Salvador.
The victim was identified as 23-year-old José Luis Alfaro Guevara, who at the time of the attack was in a kiosk at a telephone company, where he was allegedly shopping.
A mobile phone saleswoman was shot and taken to a hospital, where she was admitted due to the severity of the injuries, according to police sources.
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José Luis Alfaro Guevara, killed yesterday in Apopa, by men on motorcycles. Photo EDH / f. ros
According to authorities and relatives who arrived at the crime scene, the victim resided in the subdivision El Castell 2, always in the municipality of Apopa.
According to Elías Alfaro, his son worked as a bricklayer, although he said he did not know where he worked. Like every day, this Saturday morning he went out to work, on his motorcycle, which was close to his body.
According to the Prosecutor’s Office, those who killed José Luis were riding two motorcycles. The corpse featured 8 p.m. shots.
The victim’s life partner, who is pregnant, also arrived at the scene. Relatives denied that the young man was linked to gang groups. However, while waiting for authorities to remove his son’s body to the Institute of Forensic Medicine, the victim’s father expressed, “Children sometimes hide things.”
Moments that forensic employees remove the corpse. One more person was injured in the armed attack. Photo EDH / Francisco Rubio
No news of missing traders
Apopa is a municipality where the Revolutionary Group 18 and the Salvatrucha Mara predominate. Both groups have a presence in this municipality, police sources say.
In the first days of this month, several people have disappeared in this municipality, including the cases of two traders, one dairy and another for soft drinks and beers.
On December 5, at noon, John Harley García Funes, 20, disappeared when he left his home in the Guadalupe colony, always in Apopa, for an automotive workshop and the market in that city, where he had a dairy and grain business, he told relatives. However, he never got to either place.
Three days later, Amadeu de Jesús Camps Henríquez, disappeared between the night of December 8 and the morning of December 9, from his home in the Jardins de Mare Terra housing estate, a few meters from a police facility.
According to relatives of Camps Henríquez, who took him away also stole the deeds of two houses and several boxes of beers.
In both cases, the authorities have not advanced the investigation, according to relatives of both traders.
Some complained that in the Apopa Prosecutor’s Office when asked about the case, they are told that they are investigating but have patience, which is not the only case of missing people being investigated. The same goes for the police, they said.