A drunk driver who rammed his vehicle into several motorcyclists in the south of Bogotá was beaten to death the night before by a motorized mob that chased him after the accidents, local authorities reported this Wednesday.
“Approximately two hundred people traveling on motorcycles chased a citizen who was traveling in a blue camper, which (…) was attacking and carrying out dangerous maneuvers, affecting mobility and trying to impact the motorcyclists,” said operational commander number 3 of the Bogotá Metropolitan Police, Colonel Álvaro Mora.
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On that trip, a police officer was run over and injured, the commander said.
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The officer added that once the driver was detained in the El Tintal neighborhood, the motorcyclists “simultaneously attacked this person,” who was transferred to the West Clinic where he died from the “multiple traumas” suffered.
“The Police are verifying all the cameras (…) in order to determine the license plates (of the motorcycles) and identification of the people who participated in this collective attack on this citizen,” Mora added.
The mayor of the Bogotá town of Kennedy, Karla Marín, asked citizens not to take “justice into their own hands” and said that the authorities are “able to act” and that “tolerance is also very important.”
This case occurs just four days after a drunken taxi driver ran over, also in the south of the Colombian capital, eleven people, including a couple and their four minor children, including a fifteen-year-old teenager who died the day before.
The taxi driver, identified as José Eduardo Chalá, arrested shortly after the accident, was sent to jail by a judge, after accepting charges of aggravated homicide and personal injury.
The director of the Colombian Traffic Police, General Susana Blanco, assured that the taxi driver had more than ten fines, most of them for traffic violations that he had committed in recent years.
In this case, there is also another seven-year-old minor who, according to the Ministry of Health, “is receiving management through protocols for brain neuroprotection,” which is why he remains in an Intensive Care Unit (ICU).
