The victim, identified as José Luis Alfaro Guevara, 23, was shopping at a mobile kiosk of a mobile phone company.
“That’s life, my son is there,” said José Elías Alfaro, at noon in front of the body of his son, killed yesterday afternoon by alleged gang members 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 of a telephone company, where he should have come to buy.
In the same incident, a mobile phone saleswoman was shot and transferred to a hospital, where she was hospitalized due to the severity of her injuries, according to police sources.
SEE: “This is life. There is my son ”: the father of a young man killed in Apopa
José Luis Alfaro Guevara, killed yesterday in Apopa, by men with motorcycles. Photo EDH / f blond
According to authorities and relatives who arrived at the crime scene, the victim lived in the subdivision of El Castillo 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 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 body had eight bullets.
The victim’s life partner, who is pregnant, also arrived at the scene. Family members denied that the young man was linked to gangs. However, while waiting for the authorities to remove his son’s body from the Institute of Forensic Medicine, the victim’s father said: “Children sometimes hide things.”
Moments when forensic employees remove the body. Another person was injured in the armed attack. Photo EDH / Francisco Rubio
No news of the missing traders
Apopa is a municipality dominated by the 18th Revolutionary Gang and Mara Salvatrucha. The two groups have a presence in that municipality, police sources say.
In the first days of this month, several people disappeared in that municipality, among them the cases of two traders, one with dairy products and the other with soft drinks and beers.
At noon on December 5, 20-year-old John Harley García Funes disappeared when he left his home in the Guadalupe neighborhood, still in Apopa, in a car shop and at the market in that city, where he had a dairy business. and grain, as he told his relatives. However, he never got anywhere.
Three days later, Amadeo de Jesús Campos Henríquez disappeared between the night of 8 and the morning of December 9, from his house in the Jardines de Madre Tierra urbanization, a few meters from a police unit.
According to Campos Henríquez’s relatives, those who took him also stole the deeds of two houses and several cases of beer.
In both cases, the authorities made no progress in the investigation, according to relatives of both traders.
Some complained that when asked about the case in the Apopa prosecutor’s office, they replied that they were investigating, but they were patient, that it was not the only case of missing persons they were investigating. The same happens with the Police, they said.