Easy, I miskeyed. It was early for me. Happens to the best of us.
Leave it to Jackoff to ruin a serious thread. he's probably embarassed because he knows ZERO gringos were involved in this murder. Fuckin Ticos. My condolences to the families of those involved. Show some respect, Jack oFF
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Violent crime took center stage again Tuesday after bandits attacked three young women in a car in Escazú, killed one and distributed the victims in three different parts of the western metro area.
The early morning crime followed a weekend in which one man died in one of two bus stickups on the General Cañas highway. A key witness to another murder case died in an assassination in Alajuelita hours before the Escazú crime.
The three women worked in the Jazz Casino at the White House Hotel, an upscale gathering place for wealthy North Americans and rich Costa Ricans. It is high in the hills south of Escazú Centro.
The car with the three women was intercepted less than a half mile from the hotel after the women left work about 1:20 a.m., according to the Judicial Investigating Organization. Investigators believe that the goal of the bandits was to kill all three women with bullets to the head. But two survived, although one is in critical condition in Hospital México.
Jorge Rojas, director of the Judicial Investigating Organization, said this case is possibly related to a series of seemingly random, execution-style killings that began June 19. In each case, pairs of victims were killed by bullet wounds to the head, and then dumped several miles apart.
According to the investigators, Yerlín Marín Salazar, 24, a mother of a 6-year-old child, was the woman murdered by the bandits. Her body was found near dawn at a traffic circle in San Antonio de Belén.
A second victim was the dead woman's sister, Arelis, 27, the mother of two. She was found still conscious in an alley, one kilometer to the west of the Autopista Próspero Fernández. She received bullet wounds to the lower back and the neck, said investigators. She was being treated at the Hospital San Juan de Dios in San José.
A companion Angie Peraza Fernández, 25, also survived. She was the first found. That was about 2:30 a.m. near Autos Bolaños in Alto de las Palomas de Heredia, agents said. She received wounds to the cheek and the head and was being treated at Hospital México, agents said.
The bandits had abducted the women in hopes of getting them to withdraw money from automatic teller machines, but only one, believed to be the dead woman, carried her debit card.
Investigators said that one of the women called her
</td> <td valign="top" width="300">husband shortly before leaving the casino at 1 a.m. When she failed to appear at home, the husband went toward the White House Hotel, and discovered the vehicle abandoned on the road some 400 meters before the entrance to the hotel.
The abductions resemble the murder of one couple in August and two other couples in June.
Rolando Orozco Alpizar, 24, died where he was found near the fence of the Tobias Bolaños airport in Pavas either late Aug 20 or early Aug 21. He had a single bullet wound to the head. The body of his companion, Pamela Chávez Umaña, 22, turned up in a vacant lot not far from the U.S. Embassy. The man and woman had been dating and they last were seen Aug. 20 when they left a home to visit a restaurant. Orozco's car was found intact in front of the condominium where Ms. Chávez lived with her mother.
June 19 a journalist, Julio Acuña, 34, was found dead in a similar fashion in Alajuelita. His companion of the previous evening, Yoselin Rojas Chinchilla, 23, a teacher, was found dead in Escazú.
Gunshots to the head were the causes of death.
The same day investigators learned of two more deaths when bodies were found along route 32 in Tibás. Again the victims were a man and a woman. Three of these six victims were university students.
The killing in Alajuelita Monday night was of a woman who had avoided murder attempts three times in the past. Dead is Dunia María León Calderón, 48 who was a witness to the murder of Ariel José Rodríguez Salas, 19, who died last Dec. 14 at the same home. The woman refused to leave her home despite the murder tries.
The bus killing was about 10 p.m. Friday when bandits tried to stick up a bus bound to San José from Alajuela. Killed was Jorge Muñoz, a waiter who was a former policeman. One bandit saw Muñoz go for his own pistol and shot him once in the chest. Muñoz still managed to return fire and wounded a bandit. A suspect was detained a short time later at Hospital San Juan de Dios, said police.
The bus stickup was the second of the night along that stretch of road between Parque la Sabana and Hospital México. An Alajuela-bound bus suffered the same fate about 7 p.m.
All three major television news shows provided extensive coverage of the latest killing Tuesday night, in part because Rojas gave a press conference on the topic. Some stations also had taped coverage of the Cruz Roja putting the surviving Marín woman in an ambulance and investigators carrying off the body of the dead sister.</td></tr></tbody></table>
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By Elyssa Pachico and Saray Ramírez Vindas
of the A.M. Costa Rica staff
of the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Violent crime took center stage again Tuesday after bandits attacked three young women in a car in Escazú, killed one and distributed the victims in three different parts of the western metro area.
The early morning crime followed a weekend in which one man died in one of two bus stickups on the General Cañas highway. A key witness to another murder case died in an assassination in Alajuelita hours before the Escazú crime.
The three women worked in the Jazz Casino at the White House Hotel, an upscale gathering place for wealthy North Americans and rich Costa Ricans. It is high in the hills south of Escazú Centro.
The car with the three women was intercepted less than a half mile from the hotel after the women left work about 1:20 a.m., according to the Judicial Investigating Organization. Investigators believe that the goal of the bandits was to kill all three women with bullets to the head. But two survived, although one is in critical condition in Hospital México.
Jorge Rojas, director of the Judicial Investigating Organization, said this case is possibly related to a series of seemingly random, execution-style killings that began June 19. In each case, pairs of victims were killed by bullet wounds to the head, and then dumped several miles apart.
According to the investigators, Yerlín Marín Salazar, 24, a mother of a 6-year-old child, was the woman murdered by the bandits. Her body was found near dawn at a traffic circle in San Antonio de Belén.
A second victim was the dead woman's sister, Arelis, 27, the mother of two. She was found still conscious in an alley, one kilometer to the west of the Autopista Próspero Fernández. She received bullet wounds to the lower back and the neck, said investigators. She was being treated at the Hospital San Juan de Dios in San José.
A companion Angie Peraza Fernández, 25, also survived. She was the first found. That was about 2:30 a.m. near Autos Bolaños in Alto de las Palomas de Heredia, agents said. She received wounds to the cheek and the head and was being treated at Hospital México, agents said.
The bandits had abducted the women in hopes of getting them to withdraw money from automatic teller machines, but only one, believed to be the dead woman, carried her debit card.
Investigators said that one of the women called her
</td> <td valign="top" width="300">husband shortly before leaving the casino at 1 a.m. When she failed to appear at home, the husband went toward the White House Hotel, and discovered the vehicle abandoned on the road some 400 meters before the entrance to the hotel.
The abductions resemble the murder of one couple in August and two other couples in June.
Rolando Orozco Alpizar, 24, died where he was found near the fence of the Tobias Bolaños airport in Pavas either late Aug 20 or early Aug 21. He had a single bullet wound to the head. The body of his companion, Pamela Chávez Umaña, 22, turned up in a vacant lot not far from the U.S. Embassy. The man and woman had been dating and they last were seen Aug. 20 when they left a home to visit a restaurant. Orozco's car was found intact in front of the condominium where Ms. Chávez lived with her mother.
June 19 a journalist, Julio Acuña, 34, was found dead in a similar fashion in Alajuelita. His companion of the previous evening, Yoselin Rojas Chinchilla, 23, a teacher, was found dead in Escazú.
Gunshots to the head were the causes of death.
The same day investigators learned of two more deaths when bodies were found along route 32 in Tibás. Again the victims were a man and a woman. Three of these six victims were university students.
The killing in Alajuelita Monday night was of a woman who had avoided murder attempts three times in the past. Dead is Dunia María León Calderón, 48 who was a witness to the murder of Ariel José Rodríguez Salas, 19, who died last Dec. 14 at the same home. The woman refused to leave her home despite the murder tries.
The bus killing was about 10 p.m. Friday when bandits tried to stick up a bus bound to San José from Alajuela. Killed was Jorge Muñoz, a waiter who was a former policeman. One bandit saw Muñoz go for his own pistol and shot him once in the chest. Muñoz still managed to return fire and wounded a bandit. A suspect was detained a short time later at Hospital San Juan de Dios, said police.
The bus stickup was the second of the night along that stretch of road between Parque la Sabana and Hospital México. An Alajuela-bound bus suffered the same fate about 7 p.m.
All three major television news shows provided extensive coverage of the latest killing Tuesday night, in part because Rojas gave a press conference on the topic. Some stations also had taped coverage of the Cruz Roja putting the surviving Marín woman in an ambulance and investigators carrying off the body of the dead sister.</td></tr></tbody></table>
