basis of the application (supra para 31). Therefore, the Court will not rule on the arguments of the representative in this regard. VII RIGHTS TO PERSONAL INTEGRITY AND LIFE OF PEDRO MIGUEL VERA VERA, IN RELATION TO THE OBLIGATION TO RESPECT AND GUARANTEE RIGHTS A. Arguments of the parties 34. The Inter-American Commission held that Mr. Pedro Miguel Vera Vera, twenty years old, was detained on April 12, 1993, after he “was followed by a group of persons who had surprised him during an attempted robbery and tried to lynch him and burn him alive.” While they chased him, Mr. Vera Vera “received a blow from a bullet from a distance in the upper left frontal region.” It noted that “there are not sufficient elements to establish whether the bullet came from the group of persons that followed him or from police agents that apprehended him in the same context.” It also stated that upon his detention, as a consequence of the serious omissions in the administration of medical care while Mr. Vera Vera was under State custody,23 he “suffered serious consequences to his health,” fear, and helplessness while he experienced “the serious deterioration of his condition,” and subsequently, death in a public hospital. As a consequence, it requested that the Court declare that the State failed to comply “with its obligation to guarantee the physical integrity of Mr. Pedro Miguel Vera Vera, submitting him to cruel and inhumane treatment and not treating him with the inherent respect that is due to all human beings,” pursuant to Articles 5(1) and 5(2) of the American Convention, in relation to Article 1(1) thereof. Moreover, it argued that the Court declare that the State failed to comply with its obligation to guarantee the right to life of Mr. Vera Vera, pursuant to Article 4(1) of the American Convention, in relation to Article 1(1) thereof. 35. The representative substantially agreed with the Commission. He also specified that “on the night of April 12, 1993, [Mr. Vera Vera was] followed by a mob that accused him of assaulting people in a public street, [a] police officer joined the chase at the time that he was shot and was captured, and it is noted that he had suffered a gunshot wound to his left breast […].”Mr. Vera Vera passed away on April 23, 1993, in the Eugenio Espejo Hospital in the city of Quito. The autopsy report states that “the cause of death was peritonitis and hemoperitoneum due to lacerations of the mesenteric vessels and intestinal loops, caused by penetration of a projectile from a firearm[.]” As 23 The Commission indicated that the State failed to comply with its obligation to administer adequate medical assistance of Mr. Pedro Miguel Vera Vera: “a) after his detention, [as he was not taken immediately to a hospital, but to the Police station to be searched, and because he was released from the public hospital of Santo Domingo de los Colorados on 12 April 1993 without an explanation on the medical considerations that justified that release]; during his stay at the Police Detention Ceneter in Santo Domingo from 13 to 17 April 1993, which did not have the hygienic and material conditions necessary to house him and offer him medical treatment; and [c)] during his stay between 17 and 22 April 1993 in the public hospital of Santo Domingo de los Colorados, where no surgery was performed despite the existence of a judicial order of 16 April 1993”. 15