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92.
On the same day, the Third National Police Unit, submitted a report to the
sitting Magistrate’s Court for Criminal Matters, in which it was established that the
victim died from a gunshot injury and that “he had a bullet of unknown caliber
embedded” (capital letters in the original).
g.
Judicial proceeding on the murder of Anstraum Aman Villagrán
Morales before the Second Criminal Trial Court (Guatemala City)
(case No. 1,712/90)
93.
On June 26, 1990, the jurisdiction of the sitting Magistrate’s Court for
Criminal Matters having been exhausted, the proceedings were transferred to this
court.
94.
The court heard the witnesses, Bruce Harris, Matilde Reyna Morales García,
Gustavo Adolfo Cóncaba Cisneros, José Méndez Sánchez, Aida Patricia Cámbara
Cruz, Julia Griselda Ramírez López, Ayende Anselmo Ardiano Paz, Edgar Alberto
Mayorga Mazariegos, Rember Aroldo Larios Tobar, Delfino Hernández García, Micaela
Solís Ramírez and Rosa Angélica Vega.
95.
The report of the forensic autopsy of the victim in the file stated that the
cause of the youth’s death was a “[p]enetrating wound in the abdomen produced by
a bullet from a firearm”.
96.
On January 17, 1991, the court sent an official communication to the Director
General of the National Police Force, requesting him to investigate the violent death
of Anstraum Aman Villagrán Morales.
97.
Reports of the ballistic tests on the bullet that was found on the ground when
the body of Villagrán Morales was removed, and the arm that fired it, established
that this bullet had a diameter of 9 mm. and that it came from a .38 inch caliber,
Taurus revolver, registration No. 1481127.
98.
On March 25, 1991, detailed information on the investigation conducted by
the Minors’ Section of the Criminal Investigations Department of the National Police
Force into the death of Anstraum Aman Villagrán Morales and the murder of Henry
Giovanni Contreras, Federico Clemente Figueroa Túnchez, Julio Roberto Caal
Sandoval and Jovito Josué Juárez Cifuentes was sent to the court. It mentioned that
the investigators had interviewed the following persons: Gaspar Xep Castro, Julia
Consuelo López de Ramírez, Julia Griselda Ramírez López and Gustavo Adolfo
Cóncaba Cisneros. This police report indicated that Néstor Fonseca López, Samuel
Rocael Valdez Zúñiga and Rosa Trinidad Morales Pérez were the alleged perpetrators
of the murders.
99.
The police report concluded that
From the investigation that has been conducted and the report of the Identification
Section, it is proved that one of those directly responsible for the murder of ANSTRAUM
AMAN VILLAGRÁN MORALES, is the former police agent, SAMUEL ROCAEL VALDEZ
ZÚÑIGA and the alleged accomplices are NÉSTOR FONSECA LÓPEZ and ROSA TRINIDAD
MORALES PÉREZ, as she was constantly seen by JULIA CONSUELO LÓPEZ DE RAMÍREZ
and JULIA GRISELDA RAMÍREZ LÓPEZ, who were interviewed, talking to the accused
persons and had a very close relationship with one of them.
Moreover, before
ANSTRAUM was murdered, she spoke to him and told him not to speak to her because
he was going to be killed in the same way as his companions.