Leonardo Palacios was intercepted and shot while driving. He was killed on Thursday, the same day Diana Salazar received death threats.
Authorities have gathered more than 40 ballistic evidence at the crime scene. Ecuador faces an increase in criminal violence and drug trafficking, with a homicide rate of 25 per 100,000 inhabitants. The prosecutor requested that a court set a date and time to charge Jorge Glas, former vice president of Rafael Correa (2007-2017), accused of corruption in a work executed in the coastal province of Manabí.