Hit and run killer pleads guilty

THE MAN WHO knocked down and killed Panamanian triathlon competitor and cyclist Mónica Licona, 22, and left the scene of the accident has pleaded guilty says his lawyer.

Enrique Edwin Jaén Cherigo, 27, arrived at 10 a.m. at the headquarters of the Department of Judicial investigation (DIJ) on Monday September 29,   to be formally charged with Licona’s death. He was in handcuffs and under tight security, According to his lawyer, Alexis Sinclair, the defendant pleaded guilty to causing the death of the 22-year-old.

Jaén Cherigo was arrested Saturday in Las Perlas, Santiago. He had been a fugitive for six days following the accident pn Sunday September when he struck and killed Licona while she was riding on Avenida Balboa, near the Mirimar Intercontinental Hotel.

He fled the scene of the accident, abandoning the rental vehicle, which on Avenida Mexico.

He said he ran from the accident because he was afraid.