The victim was attacked with a firearm and dispossesed of the motorcycle he was riding.
Cristian Darío Dorado Hernández, alias Dorado, is allegedly responsible for the robbery and murder of social leader Diego Fernando Ruiz Soto, that took place on March 21 in a public area of Pradera (Valle del Cauca).
According to the evidence obtained by the Office of the Attorney General, this man allegedly intercepted the victim, threatened him with a firearm into handing over his belongings, fired at him, took his motorcycle, and fled the scene.
The social leader was taken to a medical center but arrived without vital signs.
After several judicial police activities carried out to locate the individual involved in the armed attack, alias Dorado was identified and arrested by the Technical Investigation Corps and units of the National Police in a property in Pradera.
Meanwhile, a prosecutor appointed to the Special Investigation Unit (Unidad Especial de Investigación UEI) charged him with aggravated homicide; manufacture, trafficking, possession, or possession of firearms, accessories, parts, and ammunition; qualified and aggravated theft; and trafficking, manufacture, or possession of narcotics.
The defendant did not plead guilty to the charges and must serve a prison sentence.
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.