Karla Julieth Ojeda Cuitiva, 14 years old, and Deison Enrique Cortés Vela, 23 years old, lost their lives, apparently, in the middle of a dispute between gangs from the Ocho commune. During the event, another adolescent identified as Geithner Andrés Diaz Mora, 14 years old, was injured.
There were 30 days left for Karla Julieth Ojeda Cuitiva, to fulfill the dream of every young lady, to celebrate her 15th birthday, on August 26, however, her desires were cut short by criminal hands that took her life together with Deison Enrique Cortés Vela, 23 years old.
The fact
Those already mentioned were the fatalities of an armed confrontation, which ended the tranquility of the Rafael Azuero Manchola neighborhood, in the Ocho de Neiva commune. According to official information, the attack took place around 9:50 p.m. last Thursday on 2c street with carrera 38A in the southeast of the city.
fatal meeting
Apparently, Karla and Deison were meeting with some acquaintances from the same neighborhood, when they were harassed by another group of young people, with whom they had a fight, in which they were shot at.
The affected
Neighbors in the sector commented that they only heard a shooting and when they went out to see what had happened, they found the minor together with the other boy, lying on the floor over a hematic lake. It should be noted that, in the same event, Geithner Andrés Diaz Mora, 14 years old, was injured.
Alarmed by the shooting, the inhabitants immediately notified the authorities who quickly arrived to provide first aid to those affected, initially transferring them to the ESE Carmen Emilia Ospina health center, IPC headquarters.
medical maneuvers
From there, the doctors revealed that Cortés Vela had been shot twice in the head and another in the abdomen, making his state of health critical. Time became a race against time for the doctors who did their best to save his life.
In the emergency unit, the health professionals channeled him, gave him adrenaline and began to perform continuous cardiac massages to revive him. This is how they managed to recover his pulse, so they proceeded to intubate him and later send him in a medicalized ambulance to the Hernando Moncaleano Perdomo University Hospital in Neiva. It should be noted that on the way, he did not resist and died.
For her part, the minor who was shot in the chest was likewise taken to the same health center where the staff received her in a coma. There they realized that her tension was decreasing, leaving her at risk of dying. This is how they also had to inject her with adrenaline and perform cardiac massages to revive her. Then they proceeded with the endotracheal intubation to send her to the third level hospital, where she finally died of her due to the severity of her injury.
investigate
The authorities are carrying out the investigations in order to clarify what happened and find those responsible. It should be noted that neither the deceased nor the wounded man had a criminal record. The incident is attributed by the community to a possible gang confrontation over the dispute over the territory.
This case is added to the double homicide of Sara Sofía Sunce, 9 years old, and Yon Alexander Rodríguez, 15 years old, which occurred on June 19 in the Los Alpes neighborhood, of which, until yesterday, no details of the investigations have been known, nor have the authorities presented any arrests, remaining as one more crime in impunity.