After a complex start to the year due to the number of homicides that were registered in the first four days, with nine cases, in Medellín there was no more talk of a murder from january 5at least until the closing of this edition.
Thus the accounts would be totaling eight consecutive days without a homicidewhich represents the longest period without a murder in the city since 1979, when the registration of homicides in the city began.
The most recent case of a murder in the city occurred at 7:06 p.m. on January 4, when Harold Anderson Lopez Tabares, 39, was shot in an alley at Carrera 107 with Calle 35, in the Belencito neighborhood of San Javier. The first versions would realize that this crime would be related to retaliation by the criminal group Plan de la Torre, which operates in this sector of the city.
From that moment until the closing of the edition, 11,574 minutes elapsed since the last time a bullet or stab wound killed a person in the city, according to the records of the Information System for Security and Coexistence and the Metropolitan Police.
The streak that was in force until the closing of the edition it was seven whole daysin between on August 22 and 28, 2022, undefeated that broke in the early hours of the 29th of that month with a murder in the Robledo neighborhood.
According to the records of the authorities, prior to these streaks without murder, the highest peak reached five days until the violence returned to take on a new life in the city.
If the streak is counted in the Aburrá Valley, it takes five daysafter the death of the Police patrolman, Juan Diego Patiño Guerra, 38, in the middle of an attempted theft of his motorcycle in Navarra, de Bello, last Saturday.
