Mateo Tavera Pineda allegedly entered a farm with other armed men and shot at the occupants.
The Attorney General’s Office brought Mateo Tavera Pineda before a judge for the murder of three people on February 14, 2023, on a farm in the Buenavista area, in Ciudad Bolívar (Antioquia).
According to the evidence that was collected, this person would be part of the armed group that entered the property and shot at the occupants who were sleeping. Later, he allegedly escaped from the place in the company of his alleged accomplices.
For these facts, a prosecutor from the so-called Dirección de Apoyo Territorial charged Tavera Pineda with aggravated homicide, aggravated conspiracy to commit crimes; and manufacture, trafficking or possession of weapons, ammunition for restricted use, for the exclusive use of the Armed Forces or explosives. He did not plead guilty to the charges.
The defendant will remain deprived of his liberty. Currently, he remains in prison for his alleged participation in another collective homicide that took place in a commercial establishment in Ciudad Bolívar (Antioquia), on January 28, 2023. For this incident he is awaiting a verdict.
The Office of the Attorney General makes this information public for reasons of general interest.
The information contained in this press release corresponds to the narration of the objective news provided by the officials in charge of carrying out criminal investigations within the Office of the Attorney General. By the time this communication is disclosed, the legal status of the people mentioned is still pending to be resolved by the competent judicial authority, always under the presumption of innocence contemplated by Article 29 of the Political Constitution and Article 7 of Law 906 of 2004.