COLOMBIA:JUDGE WHO SENTENCED A DRUG BARON ON MURDER CHARGES IS KILLED IN HER CAR ON HER WAY TO WORK BY MACHINE-GUN FIRE

Record ID: 880151

  • Title: COLOMBIA:JUDGE WHO SENTENCED A DRUG BARON ON MURDER CHARGES IS KILLED IN HER CAR ON HER WAY TO WORK BY MACHINE-GUN FIRE
  • Date: 17th September 1992
  • Summary: MEDELLIN, COLOMBIA (SEPTEMBER 18, 1992) 1. VEHICLE IN WHICH JUDGE WAS SHOT 2. DAMAGED CAR/ POLICE AROUND CAR/ DEAD DRIVER 3. STILL PHOTO OF JUDGE MIRIAM ROCIO VELEZ PEREZ 4. HOSPITAL WHERE INJURED JUDGE WAS TAKEN AND LATER DIED/EMERGENCY ROOM 5. HEAVILY ARMED SOLDIER/ POLICE AND MILITARY ON TRUCKS/ SOLDIERS SEARCHING HOMES/ SOLDIERS RUNNING THROUGH STREETS/ SOLDIER MANNING MACHINE GUN/ TROOPS ON CORDONED OFF STREET Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
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  • Location: MEDELLIN, COLOMBIA
  • City: MEDELLIN
  • Country: COLOMBIA
  • Reuters ID: LVA7W4QSG367KN8PUBCO2TCGRSOW
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  • Story Text: A judge about to sentence fugitive cocaine baron Pablo Escobar on murder conspiracy charges was killed by sub-machinegun fire in Medellin on her way to work on Friday (September 18).

    Two bodyguards and a driver also died in the attack on 38-year-old Judge Miriam Rocio Velez Perez, who was rushed to a local hospital where she died shortly afterwards.

    Hours before the murders, police and army units had launched a series of raids on houses in the wealthy Envigado area of Medellin in a major new hunt for Escobar and his gang.

    Sources at the local prosecutor-general's office said Velez Perez was to sentence Escobar in the next few days over the 1986 murder of Guillermo Cano, editor of a Bogota newspaper that waged an outspoken war on the drug traffickers. Velez Perez was the third judge to be murdered while working on the case.

    Escobar escaped from jail in July during a bungled operation to transfer him to a more secure prison.
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