Navy captain murdered in Paraguay as he was leaving home
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The Public Prosecutor’s Office of Paraguay formed a team of prosecutors to investigate the murder of a high-ranking military officer, who died early Tuesday morning after being shot by several people who intercepted him in front of his house in the city of San Lorenzo, about 12 kilometers from Asuncion.
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According to these sources, the images of the murder were recorded by security cameras in the area and reported by some local media, which identified the victim as Humberto Fleitas, a captain in the Paraguayan Navy.
The man was leaving his home in his car when he was blocked from the front and rear by two other vehicles, from which several people got out and shot him from the window.
Police sources indicated that he was shot several times with long and short weapons.
The media assured that Fleitas had suffered a similar attempted attack from which he managed to escape and which he denounced as a frustrated robbery.
The police do not rule out the hypothesis that it was a contract killing.
The Attorney General of the State, Sandra Quiñonez, ordered the intervention of several prosecutors of the Specialized Unit of Organized Crime for the case, informed the Public Prosecutor’s Office in its social account.
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