on the State to carry out an effective investigation into the circumstances of what appears to be a suicide.8 Along the same lines, the IACHR has also found admissible petitions in which the state authorities have validated a hypothesis of suicide while the petitioners allege irregularities in the investigation. 9 V. ESTABLISHED FACTS A. The events of December 3, 1992, and the death of Luis Jorge Valencia Hinojosa 52. Luis Jorge Valencia Hinojosa was a member of the National Police who was serving at Chimborazo Precinct No. 510 and was 32 years old when he died. 11 He was married to Patricia Alexandra Trujillo Esparza and, according to her testimony, Mr. Valencia was right-handed, had been with the institution for seven years, 11 months, and always carried a .38 caliber service revolver. 12 53. According to the report of Chimborazo Province Police Commandant, on December 3, 1992, Policeman Luis Jorge Valencia Hinojosa, Policeman Luis Hernán Moposita; Corporal Pilco Taipe Lizardo, Corporal Luis Lema, and the taxi driver Ángel Arturo Guznay Choto were at a place known as “La Ciudadela […] where […] liquor is sold […]”. The report states that a fight broke out there between Corporal Lizardo Pilco and the taxi driver Guznay Choto. Local residents called the patrol car dispatch number whereupon Police Captain Joofre Venegas went to the scene and ordered “all four policemen to get in patrol car ST-01 and go to the police station […]”13 54. According to the police report, at the police station, “owing to the fact that policemen were drunk,” Capitán Joofre Venegas ordered them to turn over their weapons to him, “which Policeman Luis Valencia refused to do.” According to the report, in that instant, Policeman Luis Valencia discharged his service revolver twice, "wounding Captain Joofre Venegas and Corporal S. Luis Lema. Policeman Luis Valencia then fired two more shots and decided to make his escape.” 14 55. According to the above report,15 with the aim of locating and apprehending Mr. Valencia “Police Major FROM: Juan Ávila Hidalgo ordered the patrol cars on duty and a pickup truck with policemen at a checkpoint to search all the places where it was thought that he might be found ... a patrol car set out in pursuit ... with Second Lieutenants Hernán Cabezas and Luis Piedra, and Policeman Luis Romero on board, and Corporal Lorenzo Márquez driving. They went to the Ciudadela Pacará sector, where they met patrol car SU-30 under the command of Captain Patricio Ramírez. The occupants of the two patrol cars then decided to go to Policeman Luis Valencia home.” With respect to this fact, Police Lieutenant Colonel Juan Ávila Hidalgo 16 8 Thus, for example, the European Court has found admissible a case in which the hypothesis of the investigate authority was suicide, indicating that the obligations include the obligation to “carry out an effective investigation into the circumstances of what appears to be a suicide.” See ECHR, Sergey Shevchenko v. Ukraine, no. 32478/02, § 56. See also ECHR, Masneva v. Ukraine, no. 5952/07. 9 See IACHR, Report No. 83/07, José Iván Correa Arévalo (Mexico), October 16, 2007, para. 54; IACHR Report No. 57/13 Digna Ochoa et al. (Mexico), July 16, 2013. 10Appendix 1. National Police Commissioner’s written communication of December 14, 1992 Appendix 8 to the State’s communication of February 7, 2011, received at the IACHR on February 14, 2011. 11Appendix 2. First National Police District Court. Judgment of March 5, 1997. Appendix to the State’s communication of February 7, 2011, received at the IACHR on February 14, 2011. 12Appendix 3. Preliminary hearing statement of Patricia Alexandra Trujillo Esparza. August 18, 1993, and Testimony of Patricia Alexandra Trujillo Esparza. November 16, 1993. Appendix to the State’s communication of February 7, 2011, received at the IACHR on February 14, 2011. 13Appendix 4. National Police of Ecuador. National Bureau of Investigations, Report 1887-OID-CH., December 17, 1992. Appendix 9 to the State’s communication of February 7, 2011, received at the IACHR on February 14, 2011. 14Appendix 4. National Police of Ecuador. National Bureau of Investigations, Report 1887-OID-CH., December 17, 1992. Appendix 9 to the State’s communication of February 7, 2011, received at the IACHR on February 14, 2011. 15Appendix 4. National Police of Ecuador. National Bureau of Investigations, Report 1887-OID-CH., December 17, 1992. Appendix 9 to the State’s communication of February 7, 2011, received at the IACHR on February 14, 2011. 16 Appendix 66. Statement of Juan Ávila Hidalgo, August 1993. Appendix to the State’s communication of February 7, 2011, received at the IACHR on February 14, 2011.