SANTO DOMINGO. – The chilling testimony against the five men implicated in the killings the night of 4 August in Paya, Bani, Peravia province, heard in that jurisdiction’s Instruction Court describes the final moments in the lives of the seven, victims of a cocaine rip off.

Demanding the drug, a truck, a briefcase and other instruments the underworld figures loaded a white SUV and kidnapped their victims prior to their execution, according to testimony by the Nicaraguan Orin Clinton Gomez Halford, the watchman Emilio Basilio Victoria (Américo) and Mercedes Carvajal, domestic in the residence.

Peravia Permanent Attention judge Rossina Daniel Perez ruled for the Justice Ministry’s request to hear the testimony against the suspects Jose Abel Damián Soto, Andres Berroa Mercedes (Frank and/or Capi) Noe Martin Sterling Villalón, son of senator Noe Sterling Vásquez, the ex Police major Frederick Medina Abud and Alvin Sanchez Suazo.

Gomez Halford, 38, a Nicaraguan sailor described the people who fired on the night of the multiple murder. "They were four or five (men), one white, they called him El Commando and the other young and dark from 28 to 30 or 32 years old."

In the interrogation "El Comando" is described as a handsome white man, with smooth hair and walked fast.

In five photos shown to Gomez, he identifies "El Comando" as Medina Abud. "It was he who opened the door of the SUV where I was, pushed to me, in front of the white SUV where the others were, began firing, we all fell dead to the ground and I heard when they said, I imagine that it was he, and said this one is not dead and then began to fire."

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