{"id":43871,"date":"2025-03-15T10:03:41","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T15:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/?p=43871"},"modified":"2025-03-17T11:12:45","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T16:12:45","slug":"the-responsible-for-the-murder-of-a-peace-counselor-and-lgbtiq-activist-in-cordoba-was-convicted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/2025\/03\/15\/the-responsible-for-the-murder-of-a-peace-counselor-and-lgbtiq-activist-in-cordoba-was-convicted\/","title":{"rendered":"The responsible for the murder of a Peace Counselor and LGBTIQ+ Activist in C\u00f3rdoba was convicted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The defendant attacked the victim to steal a motorcycle and a cell phone valued at more than 10 million COP.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Based on the evidence obtained by the Attorney General&#8217;s Office, Carlos Andr\u00e9s Moncayo G\u00f3mez pleaded guilty, in a preliminary agreement, to the murder of the peace counselor and LGBTIQ+ activist, Deivis Enrique Junco Hern\u00e1ndez, which occurred on March 5, 2024, in Lorica (C\u00f3rdoba).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A judge approved the plea bargain and sentenced him to 17 years in prison for aggravated homicide.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A prosecutor appointed to the Special Investigation Unit (Unidad Especial de Investigaci\u00f3n UEI) confirmed that Moncayo G\u00f3mez intercepted the victim in Loma de Piedra area in Nueva Granada neighborhood and killed him by mechanical asphyxiation in order to steal a motorcycle and a cell phone valued at more than 10 million pesos.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The attacker was arrested in June 2024 during operations conducted by National Police in Lorica. At the time, he was prosecuted and has been held in prison ever since.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">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.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The defendant attacked the victim to steal a motorcycle and a cell phone valued at more than 10 million COP. Based on the evidence obtained by the Attorney General&#8217;s Office, Carlos Andr\u00e9s Moncayo G\u00f3mez pleaded guilty, in a preliminary agreement, to the murder of the peace counselor and LGBTIQ+ activist, Deivis Enrique Junco Hern\u00e1ndez, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-43871","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43871"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43872,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43871\/revisions\/43872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}