José Trujillo, 32, was captured 28 hours after the crime of the minor Nickol Valentina, which occurred in the Mesón de los Bucaros tunnel in Bucaramanga.
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Trujillo confessed to having murdered the minor for stealing her cell phone. This confession was given in the midst of the hearings for the legalization of the capture, imputation of charges and the imposition of the security measure that took place this weekend in the midst of the commotion in which the city was with this crime.
The minor left her school on Thursday, February 24 at 2 in the afternoon, crossed the pedestrian bridge and entered the tunnel and while going down the stairs she was approached by her murderer who stabbed her three times, causing her death six hours later. at the University Hospital of Santander.
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Trujillo was captured around 7 p.m. on Friday, February 25, in Barrancabermeja and later taken to Bucaramanga for prosecution.
These hearings were held on Saturday, February 26 and Sunday, February 27, there, the Prosecutor’s Office revealed new details of the case.
with background
While the Prosecutor’s Office explained to the judge the reasons why he should be sent to prison, it was revealed that Trujillo I had already stolen in this same place to another minor, however, it was not disclosed if he was captured at that time or what happened to this crime.
The Prosecutor reported that it was another minor who had been robbed days ago in that same place. Even parents had already reported the constant thefts but nothing had been done about it.
(Furthermore: Nickol’s school guardian had already warned the Mayor’s Office of insecurity)
According to the analysis of more than 60 hours of surveillance cameras, Trujillo was hanging around the place several hours before Nickol Valentina’s crime.
Keys: their clothing and social networks
In the security cameras where Trujillo is seen leaving the Mesón de los Bucaros tunnel, he wears a blue polo shirt with a large white horse on one side.
This same shirt was worn by Trujillo in several of his Facebook photos, which led the investigators to support the identification of the man.
His brother would have been the one who gave clues to the authorities about the event.
“That Thursday he came home and was nervous, anguished, according to his brother,” says the Prosecutor of the case at the hearing.
Judge breaks down in tears
The judge who attended the hearing broke down in tears at the time of recounting the facts, the man had to stop the hearing for a minute and remove his camera while saying that “it was normal that he was also human and this moved him”, In the end, the judge sent him to jail for the crimes of aggravated homicide and qualified robbery.
Trujillo is of Venezuelan origin and in the middle of his defense he argued that he had stolen to buy tennis shoes for his son who is also 15 years old and lives in Venezuela.
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