The one from the previous Monday was the second suicide case registered in less than six months in the same shopping center in the north of Barranquilla. It also happened at night, when almost all the establishments were closed and only a few remained open, among these cinemas and restaurants.
Witnesses said that the person, in this case a 16 year old teenager, climbed to the highest part of the enclosure and dropped his body to the ground floor. Those who helped her lamented the scene that was repeated in Viva.
The Metropolitan Police of Barranquilla, through a preliminary report, indicated that, after the fall, the minor presented fractures in different parts of her body. After the incident, according to the institution, she was transferred to the Ibero-American Clinic, where she died.
Death the previous year, which occurred in September, was that of Jaider Enrique Mejía Castro, 18 years old.