A violent attack was reported in the city of Pereira this Sunday morning. Seems like, Gunmen opened indiscriminate fire at four people on 30 de Agosto Boulevard, Pereira’s busiest street.
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According to images shared on social networks, The bodies were left in the middle of the public road.Eyewitnesses of the events asked for help.
“He was the one who killed everyone” said one woman about the incident, referring to the attacker who was also lying on the ground.
At noon this Sunday, authorities arrived in the Pereira area where the incident took place. The community was completely shocked by the armed attack.because several people were filling the street in the bike lane.
According to La W andBernardo Ángel Campo, also known as Berny, the leader of the La Cordillera gang, died in the attack.
In videos shared on social networks, a woman is seen next to the man’s body. He suffered multiple gunshot wounds to the head. The body was left next to an armored Toyota Land Cruiser truck.
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“One of the dead surrendered to the authorities. Apparently because he is a member of the La Cordillera criminal organization. He was known as ‘Berny’, the alleged founder of this group.” officials assured.
Likewise, it was stated that 3 firearms were seized at the scene to be used as evidence by the Prosecutor’s Office to launch an investigation.
Forensic experts from Pereira Metropolitan Police and CTI are currently working on the identification of the other individual who turned out to be dead; while two more men were transported to the care centre.
“To clarify these facts, the Pereira Metropolitan Police, together with the CTI, created a special group with the aim of ensuring definitive results against the material and intellectual perpetrators of these crimes,” the authorities said. he commented.
The criminal activities of the La Cordillera gang in the Coffee District date back more than 8 years.They emerged as a faction of the AUC’s Bolivarian Center Bloc.
They were afraid of the gangs in the area as their rivals. “Los Rolos”, “Los Rastrojos” and “El Clan Úsuga”; However, according to officials, they managed to keep control of the region thanks to their alliances with the “Envigado office”.
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people say this Nicknamed Berny, he was responsible for managing drug smuggling into Spain and was thus known as the “Otoniel of the Cordillera”.
His record includes crimes such as extortion, displacement and murder.
The person in question had already served several years in Palmyra (Valle) prison. After pleading guilty in 2015 to conspiracy to commit a felony as a co-conspirator and member of the network.
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