In the village of Palo Verde, Santa María Xalapán, Jalapa, the Police captured Juan “N”, 34 years old, after the neighbors they held him and tried to lynch him for sexually abusing a 24-year-old woman in her own home
According to the police report, Juan sexually abused the victim and, upon noticing the presence of the father-in-law of the younga 52-year-old man, who tried to defend her, shot her in the chest and neck.
Captured because he abused a woman and shot the father-in-law of the victim who tried to defend her
In La Laguna hamlet, Palo Verde village, Santa María Xalapán, Jalapa, police officers from the police station captured 34-year-old Juan “N”, neighbors had him detained trying to lynch him pic.twitter.com/CEidGwZ9Ss
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Neighbors try to lynch attacker
After the incident, the neighbors tried to take justice into their own hands. But after a dialogue with the police authorities, they decided to hand over the accused of sexual abuse to the competent judge.
In the house where the crime occurred, they found a revolver, two ammunition and three casings. Evidence collected by the authorities for the corresponding investigations.
another case of lynching
On the other hand, on 10th street and 12th avenue in zone 6 of the capital, in the Martinico II neighborhood, a group of neighbors lynched a man.
As reported, the man would have been identified as a alleged hitman that he would have attacked another man who was wounded with a firearm and transferred to a care center.
A man with gunshot wounds was transferred to a care center, an event that occurred at 10th street and 12th avenue, zone 6, Capital, Martinico colony.
A man is dead at the scene, with burns on 100% of the body pic.twitter.com/HnNh6iB76z
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