Little Progress in Guatemala Kill Probe
Guatemalan authorities still don t know the motive or those responsible for the assassination of four Salvadorians and the subsequent death of their alleged murderers, although the weapons used in both crimes have been found.

Investigative prosecutor Alvaro Matus said a rifle assigned to the National Civil Police (PNC) Criminal Investigation Department was used in the killing of the legislators and their driver, but there is no record of the individual to whom the weapon was given.

According to autopsy results, Central American Parliament deputies Eduardo D'aubisson, Jose Ramon Gonzalez and William Pichinte, and their driver Gerardo Ramirez were shot by large-bore weapons before they were set afire.

Guatemalan authorities quickly determined that the perpetrators of the massacre were members of the PNC and announced the capture of four of them.

The case became paralyzed when accused agents Luis Herrera, Jose Lopez, Jose Gutierrez and Marvin Escobar were executed in El Boqueron high-security prison.

According to Public Ministry official Mario Falla, positive ballistic tests prove that three pistols confiscated in the prison were used to kill the officers.

It is yet to be determined how the weapons were introduced into the facility, who used them and why they were not found during a first search carried out after the massacre, but a few days later.

Meanwhile, in a video shown in the Guatemalan Congress, an unidentified witness linked Interior Minister Carlos Vielmann to the killing of the Salvadorians and the activities of alleged death squadrons in Guatemala.

Vielmann, who is being questioned in the Legislature, dismissed the video, describing it as just one more anonymous allegation in this case.