Resorting to trickery of a fake job offer, the victim was taken to a wooded area, where she was attacked with a sharp weapon.
The evidence collected by the Attorney General’s Office led to the prosecution of two men accused of participating in the murder of a 19-year-old woman. The facts occurred on March 8 in a wooded area of Ibagué (Tolima).
The people involved are Brandon Andrés Archila, 21, and Santiago Hurtado González, 19, who were charged with aggravated femicide by a prosecutor from the Immediate Reaction Unit (Unidad de Reacción Inmediata URI). They did not plead guilty to charges.
The defendants were arrested by the Technical Investigation Corps (Cuerpo Técnico de Investigación CTI in spanish) and Sijín (Sijin) of the National Police during simultaneous operations carried out in the Kennedy Central neighborhood in Bogotá and El Jordán sector of Ibagué (Tolima).
Investigative activities carried out by CTI determined that the suspects contacted the victim through a social media platform with a false job offer.
On March 7, the woman was called to a meeting in Arroyuelos neighborhood. It is believed that Archila and Hurtado took her to a wooded area, where she was attacked multiple times with a knife. After the crime, the alleged perpetrators changed their clothes and fled the area. The body was found the next day.
The judge sent the defendants to prison.
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.