QUITO (AP) — The Ecuadorian court sentenced a recently captured person named as one of the accomplices in the shooting death two years ago of Ecuadorian Efraín Ruales, a television presenter and social media star, to 17 years in prison.
The Prosecutor’s Office, on his Twitter account, reported that a court accepted his request and handed down a sentence for the citizen identified as Aarón Andrés AC
It is not yet known who was the intellectual author of that murder or the possible causes.
One of the material assassins confessed that he was hired to scare him, but that he went too far. Previously, the material authors of the crime were sentenced to almost 35 years in prison and four other people to 17 years, as accomplices.
Ruales, 36, died on January 27, 2021 after receiving several bullet wounds while driving in his vehicle after leaving the gym he attended daily in the north of Guayaquil, the city with the highest rate of violence and crime in the country. .
He was one of the most charismatic characters in the variety television program “En Contacto”, which is broadcast by the Ecuavisa channel in the morning. He was also an actor and a popular character on social media, where he often posted comic recordings.
His death caused consternation in Ecuadorian society, because the presenter and actor was a highly appreciated person in the country.
