In an act of intolerance, the subject suffocated a 68-year-old woman, causing her death.
The Ibagué Metropolitan Police, through joint work between the New Police Service Model and the Criminal Investigation Section (SIJIN), achieved the capture of a 19-year-old man in the Combeima neighborhood, required by the 17th Municipal Criminal Court of Guarantees of Ibagué for the crime of feminicide.
According to the information, this person is the alleged person responsible for the event that occurred in the Matallana neighborhood, early Monday, May 8, 2023, in which He allegedly suffocated Luz Alba Muñoz Ávila, 68, causing her death.
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The captured person was placed at the disposal of the corresponding judicial authority and was sheltered with an intramural security measure in a prison center.
Regarding this capture, Lieutenant Colonel Oscar Eduardo Acosta Bahamon, operational commander of the Ibagué Metropolitan Policehe stated “This is the result of hard work and dedication, we will continue to work tirelessly to combat these types of crimes and protect all of our citizens.”
The crime
Doña Luz Alba, a red wine seller who was located next to Gana Gana in the Combeima neighborhood, She 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 that occurred inside the home where Muñoz Ávila resided, along with his sentimental partner, known as ‘Peluca’, and Lina Cristal Galeano Muñoz, daughter of the deceased.
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According to authorities, it was a death “by hanging.”
When the uniformed officers arrived at the scene, in the 12A street number 3-52 in the Matallana neighborhoodthey found the body.
Version of those close to you
The person who would have found Mrs. 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 I live on the main avenue. It was after 3 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,” story Pablo Emilio Galeano, ex-partner of the victim.
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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, He knocked on the door, but ‘Peluca’, the young man with whom his mother lived, opened it a crack. 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. “He told me: ‘Daddy, I got scared and I jumped off the roof, I fell into the yard. I came in and didn’t see my mom, I went into the kitchen to see what she was eating, but I came back and my mother 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.
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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.
