Six homicides while police search for escaped killer
As the National Police poured extra resources into the search for escaped multi-murderer Gilberto Ventura, gang-related deaths on Panama streets soared with five homicides in less than 24 hours between Tuesday and Wednesday, and a sixth in broad daylight the afternoon rush hour on Thursday, February 7, in front of the National Institute on Ave de Los Martires
In the last hours, death returned to haunt the streets of the country. Five crimes were committed in less than 24 hours between Wednesday night and Thursday in Panama and Colon.
Two men were killed at about 9:00 on Wednesday night, on Concordia Street, in Pedregal.
A police source reported that the victims were implicated in robbery and homicide cases.
In Chorillo Jean Carlos Saldaña, 18, was hit in the head by a ricocheting bullet while peering from the balcony of his home at a shooting below.
The body of a woman in her mid-twenties who had been strangled was found Thursday morning, in the gutter on Avenida Fernández de Córdoba in of Pueblo Nuevo
Investigators believe that the woman’s body was thrown in that place in the early hours of the morning. In the afternoon a man driving a car on Central Avenue in Colon was killed by shots from another car.
It was the 11th killing in Colon this year.
