They investigate if deaths of rancher and employee are due to enmities in Yoro

OLANCHITO

Not even 12 hours had passed since the farmer was killed Luis Fernando Ponce Bustillo (39) when your employee Irvin Mejía (30 years old) was murdered.

The first crime was recorded on Sunday morning on the road leading to the community of The Juncal, Municipality of Olanchito, Yoro.

Ponce was driving in his pick-up vehicle and was ambushed by strangers when he was a few meters from crossing the bridge over the Uyuca river.

Subsequently, the victim was still taken alive by locals to the Aníbal Murillo hospital from Olanchito, but died when he was treated. In this fact, a person who accompanied him was found with gunshot wounds, who is receiving medical attention.

Another crime

Irvin Mejía he was intercepted the same Sunday night when he left his employer’s wake in The Juncal His body appeared a few kilometers above the road.

The preliminary report indicates that military police were conducting patrols on the road to the village when they observed that an object was launched from a black tourism vehicle.

As they approached, they observed that it was a person already lifeless so they immediately returned to chase the black car. Another police patrol that was in the place where it was the wake of Ponce was alerted to performr patrols combined, however, they did not find tourism.

Police also set up operations on the main road, at the height of the Mame village, but also failed to locate those responsible for the murder.

Police authorities handle the death of Ponce and Mejía as personal enmity.

Luis Ponce He was a renowned farmer in Olanchito and is the brother of an entrepreneur of Ceiba. While Mejía administered the farms he had in the village The Juncal

“Work is being carried out to investigate the case to find those responsible,” said a police source.

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