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Man shoots 'friend' dead after luring her to collect alleged debt

From El Nacional · () Spanish

Translated from Spanish, summarized and contextualized by DistantNews.

At a glance

News Named sources Outcome reported
  • A man lured a woman to a meeting with the promise of paying a $100 debt and then shot her dead.
  • The incident occurred on May 10 in Venezuela's Miranda state, with two suspects targeting the 25-year-old victim.
  • Police arrested one suspect, Luis Alfredo Romero Laguna, while another, Cristian José Borges Pire, remains at large.

A Venezuelan woman was fatally shot after being lured to a meeting under the pretense of receiving a debt payment. The crime occurred on May 10 on the old Petare-Santa Lucía highway in the La Dolorita sector of Sucre municipality, Miranda state.

According to the National Director of the Cuerpo de Investigaciones Científicas, Penales y Criminalísticas (Cicpc), Douglas Rico, the victim, Sugey Marina Terán Anchila, 25, was targeted by two men who knew her. The suspects spent hours watching her home before calling her to arrange the meeting, promising to deliver the $100 debt in cash.

The implicated individuals knew the woman and thanks to that they gained the victim's trust, in order to secure the fatal encounter.

— Cicpc reportDescribing the perpetrators' method of gaining the victim's trust.

Upon her arrival at the agreed location, the assailants opened fire, killing her instantly. Police investigations identified the perpetrators as Luis Alfredo Romero Laguna, 31, who has been arrested, and Cristian José Borges Pire, 22, who is still being sought by authorities. Romero Laguna is in police custody and awaiting judicial proceedings, while efforts to apprehend Borges Pire are ongoing.

As soon as the victim arrived at the agreed site, the attackers fired their weapons and caused her death immediately.

— Cicpc reportDetailing the moment of the shooting.
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Originally published by El Nacional in Spanish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized by our editorial team with added local perspective. Read our editorial standards.

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