36. The official records indicate that the day of the events, Robert Ignacio Díaz Loreto was admitted to the Seguro Social de Corinsa hospital in the city of Cagua “at approximately 07:30 PM.”24 While, Octavio Ignacio Díaz Álvarez and David Octavio Díaz Loreto were admitted to José María Vargas Hospital of the city of Cagua.25 The IACHR does not have information about the time they were admitted to said healthcare facility and, based on information in the case file, the three alleged victims were left at said health care facilities by police agents. 37. The certificates of death issued by the Civil Registry of the Municipality of Sucre of the State of Aragua, based on the statement given by Dinora María Díaz Loreto, indicate that Robert Ignacio and Octavio Díaz died on January 6, 2003 “in la Segundera on Tenería Road and ‘1ero de octubre’ of [said municipality],” and Octavio Díaz Álvarez died “on the same day at the same location.”26. 38. The Commission notes that there are two versions of the circumstances surrounding the death of the alleged victims. Hereunder, the IACHR summarizes the evidentiary support available for each of these versions. 1. Official version of the Security and Public Order Force of the State of Aragua (CSOPEA)27 39. Based on several police records and interviews of CSOPEA officers, appearing in the case file, it is established that on January 6, 2003, at approximately 6:30PM, a police operation was carried out to respond to a report of robbery from a person who reported that “three armed subjects had robbed him” of a sum of cash […] incident occurring in sector 01 of la Segundera de Cagua.”28 In the case file there appears two police reports of March 14, 2003, in which CSOPEA officers Saúl Ricardo Ramos and Luis Dicamilo, assigned to the police station of La Segundera, in Cagua, State of Aragua, recount the same version of the events in said operation.29 40. Specifically, in the description given by Officer Ramos, he says: 24 According to Police Technical Inspection No. 021 conducted by members of the CICPC, Cagua sectional office, at the Morgue of the Seguro Social de Corinsa hospital of Cagua, the alleged victim was wearing “a blue jean-type pair of pants, […] and a white T-shirt […]”. The record notes that he presented wounds in the region of the ‘right intercostal, left ilium fossa, left side thorax, posterior left deltoid.” See: Annex 6. Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. Ministry of Public Prosecution. Office of the Ninth Prosecutor of the Judicial District of the State of Aragua. Official Letter No. 05-F9-1304-03. Charging document submitted to the Fifth Oversight Judge of the State of Aragua on the date of June 13, 2003. Annex to the initial petition of March 14, 2007. 25 According to Police Technical Inspections No. 019 and No.20 conducted by members of the CICPC, sectional office of Cagua, at the Morgue of José María Vargas Hospital, Octavio Ignacio Díaz was wearing “a blue jean type pair of pants and a light green and white, short sleeve shirt” and in the front left pants pocket” he had “an unfired shotgun cartridge.” While, David Octavio Díaz Loreto was wearing “a multicolored striped chemise type polo shirt and under it a red T-shirt.” The record indicates that he presented wounds in the “right infraclavicular area, anterior face of the right forearm, posterior face of the right forearm and two wounds in the left pectoral region.” See: Annex 6. Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. Ministry of Public Prosecution. Office of the Ninth Prosecutor of the Judicial District of the State of Aragua. Official Letter No. 05-F9-1304-03. Charging document submitted to the Fifth Oversight Judge of the State of Aragua on the date of June 13, 2003. Annex to the initial petition of March 14, 2007. 26 See, respectively: Annex 8. Certificate of death issued by the Civil Registry of the Municipality of Sucre of the State of Aragua, on January 16, 2003, page 117. Annex to the initial petition of March 14, 2007; Annex 9. Certificate of death issued by the Civil Registry of the Municipality of Sucre of the State of Aragua, on January 16, 2003, page 115. Annex to the initial petition of March 14, 2007; and Annex 7. Certified copy of certificate of death issued by the Civil Registry of the Municipality of Sucre of the State of Aragua, dated December 7, 2005, No. 392970. Annex to the initial petition of March 14, 2007. 27 According to CSOPEA Organic Decree issued on August 30, 1974, said security force is under the executive branch of the State of Aragua in the organizational structure. See: Initial petition of March 14, 2007, pg. 2. 28 Annex 10. Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. Ministry of the Interior and Justice. CICPC. Aragua Region, Cagua Sectional Office. Police record of interview of officer Saúl Ricardo Ramos Mora, of March 14, 2003, page 207. Annexed to the initial petition of March 14, 2007. 29 Annex 10. Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. Ministry of the Interior and Justice. CICPC. Aragua Region, Cagua Sectional Office. Police record interview of officer Saúl Ricardo Ramos Mora, of March 14, 2003, pages 207-208; and Annex 11. Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. Ministry of the Interior and Justice. CICPC. Aragua Region, Cagua Sectional Office. Police record interview of officer Luis Dicamilo Colmenares, of March 14, 2003, pages 209-210. Annexes to initial petition of March 14, 2007. 8