17, and their parents, Octavio Ignacio Díaz Álvarez and Juana Emilia Loreto Pérez. The officers had neither an arrest warrant nor a search warrant. 10. According to the petitioners’ narrative, without giving reasons for the arrest, the police proceeded to aggressively handle Robert Ignacio, forcing handcuffs on him and threatening to kill him because he was one of the robbers. They said that if he turned over the money to them they would “leave peacefully without involving anyone.” The petitioners indicated that when the alleged victims refused, Robert Ignacio was removed from his parents’ residence. While he was in the passageway of the front yard, the officers attempted to place him in the police vehicle. When Robert Ignacio resisted, one of the officers identified as Freddy José Pimentel shot him in the upper part of his left leg and then carried him away in the vehicle. The petitioners added that while this was going on, Robert Ignacio’s father and brother received death threats from other officers inside the house. 11. The petitioners indicated that Robert Ignacio was transferred to several unknown locations without receiving medical care. Later he was taken to a distant place where there is a discharge canal for wastewater belonging to a company that has a tannery for cattle leather. Once there, the officers forced his head into the canal until his lungs were completely full of contaminated water. They added that the officers then transported Robert Ignacio to the Cagua Social Security Hospital where he was admitted without vital signs. 12. The petitioners indicated that on that same day, Robert’s father, Octavio Ignacio Díaz Álvarez, and brother, David Octavio Díaz Loreto, managed to leave the house and began to solicit help from their neighbors. One neighbor cooperated and attempted to drive them in his vehicle to the hospital where the officers had supposedly taken Robert Ignacio to receive medical attention for the wound to his leg. The petitioners indicated that another police officer in the vicinity called the other officers to describe the vehicle in which Robert Ignacio’s father and brother were travelling, and the route they were taking. 13. According to the narrative, this vehicle was intercepted by a police contingent whose officers fired on the driver and ordered him to exit the vehicle and lie face down on the pavement, while Octavio Ignacio and David Octavio were ordered to exit the vehicle with their hands on their necks. The narrative indicated that the police then proceeded to shoot the two men, both of whom fell on the pavement and died instantly. The deceased were then transported to the Corposalud Hospital where they were abandoned without vital signs. 14. Mrs. Juana Emilia Diaz Loreto, mother and wife of the deceased, went with her other children to the Corposalud Hospital where she was informed that Octavio Ignacio and David Octavio were. She was also told that Robert Ignacio had been admitted to the Social Security Hospital. All of them were dead. 15. The petitioners indicated that according to the reports issued by the respective physicians on call, Robert Ignacio had a wound between the ribs on his right side, a wound to the left iliac cavity, a wound on the left side of the thorax, and a wound to the left side deltoid area. Octavio Ignacio had wounds between the ribs on the right side, a wound in the esogastric region of the right side, and excoriation on the front face of the left knee. David Octavio had a wound to the right intraclavicular 3