The Personería of Uramita, Western Antioquia, confirmed that this Wednesday morning the alleged murderer of nurse Eliana Marcela Vélez surrendered, who died in her own home, in Bello, on June 2, after allegedly being attacked by the man, her husband and the father of her two daughters, ages 5 and 15.
Suspicion fell on the man, according to relatives of the victim, after there was no news of him after the murdernot even to look for the two girls.
The crime of Eliana Marcela, who was 32 years old and worked as a nurse at the Medellín Clinic, from El Poblado, was discovered by the authorities after the medical center where he worked alerted him because he did not come to work. When they arrived at his house in the El Mirador neighborhood of Bello, They discovered his body, stabbed and covered with a plasticin the garage where he kept the motorcycle.
The victim’s mother pointed out the sentimental partner as responsible, of whom she said that He used to mistreat her and threaten her. Neighbors also testified that hours before the macabre discovery they would have heard a strong argument between the couple.
It is also known that The day before the murder, the family celebrated Eliana Marcela’s birthday and the alleged murderer even attended., who was calm, according to a relative. The man and the victim were born in Frontino, also in the west of the department.o.
This Tuesday afternoon a virtual Eucharist was held in tribute to this mother, with whose death the number of women murdered in Bello so far in 2022 rose to 12, against 21 on the same date in 2021.
Likewise, for this Wednesday a sit-in is planned in the municipality to pay tribute to the memory of the young woman nurse and insist that justice be done promptly and reject violence against women.
The concentration will be held in Bello main park, at 4:00 in the afternoonand it is expected that feminist groups, human rights defenders and the community in general will join their voices in general rejection of this murder, which although it has not yet been classified as femicide by the authorities, everything would point to the fact that it was.