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Entire
Neighbourhood Becomes Murder
Suspect
An entire barrio (neighbouhood)
has become murder suspect of a
local thief. Eduardo Loaiza
Acuña, who according to police
had a long record of robbing his
neighbours and other crimes, was
found murdered, in front of his
home, in León XIII, in Tibás.
The murder took place around
10:30am yesterday, according to
witnesses who preferred not be
identified, when a man knocked
on the Loaiza door, who answered
with a "machete" in hand, since
he was accustomed to being
threatened by residents of the
area since he took every
advantage to rob them when they
became careless.
However, yesterday, the
unidentified man opened fire on
Loaiza as he opened the door,
hitting him in the head and then
several other shots to the body
when it fell to the ground,
making sure the man would be
dead.
Police say that no one has come
forward or claiming to have seen
anything of what they believe to
be an act of vengeance, justice
for the entire neighbourhood.
When the call to 911 came and
police arrived on the scene, the
murdered had disappeared,
leaving police only with a body
and no witnesses.
Heading the investigation are
homicide detectives of the
Organismo de Investigación
Judicial (OIJ) which fear that
this will go down as an unsolved
case.
The problem police face is that
no one claims to have seen
anything, heard anything and are
not talking to police, fearing
reprisals. Police are also
working the theory that the
murder was a settling of a drug
score, since Loaiza was known to
hang out with drug dealers,
according to Wendy Ramirez,
Loaiza's stepdaughter.
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