Archive image of Colombian police officers. NATIONAL POLICE OF COLOMBIA (Europa Press)
The last hours of Jhon Jairo Contreras and Luz Andrea Villabona were in a room at the Kamasutra motel in Bucaramanga.
The couple decided to celebrate Halloween night in this place that offers lovers "unforgettable moments".
It was half past three in the morning when they put an end to what would be their last step in this life.
They called the taxi driver who had taken them to pick them up and got in the back.
The car started.
The last thing they saw were two motorcycles at the height of the windows.
Just before starting a hail of shots.
Contreras died instantly from the nine bullets that were aimed directly at his head.
Villabona was shot three times in the abdomen.
The taxi driver, the only witness in the middle of the dark night, managed to take her alive to the hospital.
Contreras, 32, left the motel dressed for battle.
The gunmen who were waiting for them knew that he used to wear a bulletproof vest and always carry a gun.
Also that night.
In order not to miss, all the shots went straight to the face.
The police document indicates that he was a rancher, but the latest crime that has shaken the city already looks towards the war between drug trafficking gangs that have long been the protagonists of vendettas and hired assassins in the area.
Villabona, 34, aka
La Ratona
, was not supposed to be there that night.
The official report says that she is a manicurist, but in 2019 she was arrested for drug trafficking with her then partner.
He is serving time in jail and she was sentenced to house arrest.
The authorities related them to a criminal gang in the city.
The Prosecutor's Office has opened an investigation but remains silent on any clue that helps unravel the reasons for the crime.
There are two open lines on the table: a problem between drug clans or a crime of passion.
This last idea, based on the possibility that Villabona's ex-partner ordered the murder from prison, loses force with the passing of the hours.
For a little less than a year, two criminal groups have been vying for control of drug trafficking in the city.
These are
Los Coloso
, whose leader Óscar Camargo, alias
Pichi
, was arrested at the end of 2020, and the
Los del Sur
or
Los Mexicanos
gang, led by Nelson Enrique Reátiga, alias
Poporro,
who according to the authorities is on the run in Mexico.
The rivalry did not always exist.
Poporro, who was part of the ELN guerrilla, joined Pichi in Bucaramanga as part of his security scheme.
One put his life in the other's hands.
With the fall of the leader of Los Coloso, also known as the Pablo Escobar of Bucaramanga, Poporro tried to take over the business in the city.
His former boss understood it as a betrayal and started the war.
The body of Jhon Jairo Contreras will be veiled this Thursday in Floridablanca, 15 minutes from Bucaramanga, in a ceremony that will be broadcast on Facebook Live.
It seems that the mystery of why he left the motel equipped as a soldier going to the front will be taken to the grave.
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