Gunmen on bikes opened hearth on an digital dance music occasion within the coastal city of Puerto Colombia on Monday evening, killing three folks and wounding 9 others, El Universal reviews.
The assault occurred on a non-public property round 4 miles from town heart, close to the Papiros Toll plaza on the coastal freeway generally known as Vía al Mar. The victims had been partying on the rave, dubbed “Expertise Check,” when 4 assailants arrived on a pair of bikes and “started taking pictures indiscriminately” into the group, in keeping with native authorities.
Two folks reportedly died on the scene: Luis Alfredo Vergara Julio, 25, who suffered deadly wounds to his face and neck, and Ronaldo José Alarcón Castrilleros, 19, who sustained three head wounds. A 3rd sufferer, Maciel Karina Gómez, 25, died later at a neighborhood hospital.
Gómez, an influencer and aspiring EDM artist, was one in all 12 DJs performing on the occasion. She had shared movies of her dancing on social media simply minutes earlier than she was fatally shot.
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The assault follows a sample of violence that has plagued Colombia’s coastal areas, the place felony organizations usually goal gatherings and public occasions. Authorities haven’t but recognized the perpetrators or established a motive for the taking pictures.
“Between 10pm and 10:30 pm, at Kilometer 7 on the street to the coast, in an space generally known as Villa Olvega, a bunch of younger folks had been having fun with a non-public get together once they had been interrupted by people who started taking pictures indiscriminately,” Edwin Urrego, commander of the Metropolitan Police of Barranquilla, mentioned in a press release. “Because of this assault, three folks died and 9 extra had been injured.”
Colombian authorities have launched an investigation into the taking pictures.
