The young man’s relatives Carlos Javier Vega19 years old, who He died from a shot by the military when he was in a car that supposedly tried to evade a control operationon the morning of Friday, February 2, south of Guayaquil, announced that it will sue the State, as reported by Vistazo magazine.
His father has angrily denied that his son is a terroristas described on the social networks of the Security Block, after the death of the boy, on Saturday, February 3, at the Guasmo Hospital.
The boy had gone out with his cousin, Eduardo Vega, to sell a dog outside the Salesian Polytechnic University when they came across the operation and retreated when they could not move forward, according to the family’s version.
As they retreated, they collided with a military vehicle, and then the survivor says he heard explosions. «I notice that my cousin stretches out his arm. I get to (Domingo Comín Avenue) and I stop, I get out to ask for help and the soldiers arrive and shoot me. I tell them ‘don’t do anything to me’. “They yelled at me on the floor, on the floor,” he told Oromar news.
That same night, at 8:00 p.m., the Armed Forces’ X account published a tweet in which it stated that «during an internal military operation in Guayaquil, two alleged terrorists were apprehended during an attempted attack on a military checkpoint«.
Carlos Xavier Vega died the next day, while a prosecutor filed charges of “attack and resistance” against the survivor Eduardo Vega, despite the fact that it was proven that neither of the two was armed, nor were any drugs found in the vehicle, nor any Both of them have criminal records.
Eduardo Vega is a taxi driver, as he said.
The young man who died played bass in the musical group of a Christian church. “He was doing the paperwork to enter university because he told me that he wanted to study foreign trade, I wanted to be a great businessman“, commented Laura Ipanaqué, mother of the victim, quoted by Vistazo.
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