Miami (USA) Jan 30 (EFE) .- Damián Valdéz Galloso, arrested for the first degree murder of the Cuban reggaeton El Taiger, was formally accused this Thursday in a Miami Court of Miami of first degree murder, a new position that could be the death penalty.
A judge from this city in southern Florida (USA) read the charges to the defendant, 49, after a great jury on Wednesday made public the new accusation against the man, arrested as suspect from the murder of Cuban singer José Manuel Carvajal Zaldívar, 37 years old and artistically known as the Taiger.
According to the formal accusation, Valdéz Galloso faces three positions: first -degree murder, manipulation of physical evidence and illegal possession of weapons.
The defendant did not appear in the Court, despite his ex officio lawyer, he reported that he declared himself not guilty.
Before the accusation of the Grand Jury, the man, arrested without the right to bail, faced a second degree murder charge and had also declared himself not guilty.
The lawyers of the prosecution and defense have been summoned for a new hearing on February 13, which is expected to be known if the Prosecutor’s Office will ask for the death penalty for Valdéz Galloso.
According to the judicial file, the early morning of October 3, the reggaeton went to the home of Valdéz-Galloso, who after an argument shot the victim in the head and then transferred it to the interior of a truck that led away from the scene.
The artist was found at 6:45 (10:45 GMT) of that day wounded in the back of a truck, in an area of the neighborhood of Allapattah. He died after having remained seven days in critical condition at the Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami.
The news of his death generated a wave of reactions in the artistic world, both in Cuba and in Miami. EFE
