The subject was captured a year after the crime and sent to prison. The victim and the aggressor had a romantic relationship for nine months.
A 19-year-old young man was captured in the Combeima neighborhood, in Ibagué, as allegedly responsible for the crime of femicide. The man is being sought by the authorities since last May 8, 2023, when the crime occurred.
According to the investigation carried out by the authorities, this person is the alleged person responsible for the incident recorded in the Matallana neighborhood, where he allegedly asphyxiated Luz Alba Muñoz Ávila, 68 years old, causing his death.
After the capture, this person was left at the disposal of the corresponding judicial authority and after being presented at a hearing, a guarantee control judge It was dictated by an intramural security measure in a prison center.
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The crime
Luz Alba, a red wine seller who was located next to the Gana Gana in the Combeima neighborhood, was murdered by mechanical asphyxiation with a rope. In addition, her face had evidence of bruises. The Metropolitan Police of Ibagué, at the time, attended to the incident recorded inside the house where Muñoz Ávila resided, along with his romantic partner, known as ‘Peluca’, and Lina Cristal Galeano Muñoz, daughter of the victim.
According to authorities, it was a death “by hanging.” When the uniformed officers arrived at the scene, at 12A Street number 3-52 in the Matallana neighborhood, they found the body.
family version
The person who would have found Luz Alba without vital signs was her daughter, Lina Cristal Galeano Muñoz. She ran to tell her parent about her tragedy: “My daughter arrived in the Baltazar neighborhood, where she lives, on the main avenue. It was after 3:00 in the morning when she started screaming: ‘daddy, daddy, that man killed my mom, he killed my mom.’ I got up immediately, opened the door and walked out. “A patrol car was passing by and I stopped them to tell them to come with me because they had killed my daughter’s mother.”, Pablo Emilio Galeano, the victim’s ex-partner, said at the time.
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According to the version that Lina Cristal told her father, she arrived at the house around 8:30 p.m. on Sunday, May 7, 2023, knocked on the door, but ‘Peluca’, the young man with whom his mother lived, opened the door to him. However, she closed again. Lina went to her father again.
Presumably, when he returned to the Matallana neighborhood, no one opened the house for him, despite his insistence. “Told me: ‘Daddy, I got scared and I jumped off the roof, I fell into the yard. I went in and didn’t see my mom, I went into the kitchen to see what she was eating, but I came back and my mom was lying face down with a rope around her neck.’. Since she didn’t believe it, he thought she was asleep, but he turned her over, took her by the arms and said: ‘My mother is dead, she had a knot and she was cut, I took that away from her daddy, I closed the door and I went to where you are.’ Galeano said.
For those close to you, The main suspect is the man with whom Luz Alba had a romantic relationship for nine months. Furthermore, it would not be the first time that the subject attacked her. The captured person, apparently, is a hallucinogen user.
