Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
Public Prosecution Service spokesman Yuri Mora said today that the testimony of Edgar José Velásquez, a friend of Keyla Martinez, the dead nurse in a police cell in La Esperanza, and who was held that night at the same station, “they don’t need to change the investigation of the security and justice entities” regarding the resounding case.
The death of the university student has sparked outrage among the national population and the international community. While in police custody Sunday in a cell at the police station of the central-western city, he died of mechanical asphyxiation, as evidenced by the autopsy of forensics.
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Protests and a storm of demonstrations have drawn attention to the possible involvement of police officers in the event. All elements assigned to the station were transferred to Tegucigalpa and Peace, which has sparked criticism and questions pointing to the emergence of senior leaders of the institution.
Martinez, van 26 years old, he was that night with the doctor Edgar José Velásquez, who was also arrested and taken to the city post by agents of the National Police. In the last hours, and after his silence since Martínez’s death, he appeared before the media.
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“She said she wanted to hang up with her sweater,” Velasquez explained CNNHowever, the prosecution, the investigating body of the case, reiterated that these statements do not affect the processes of the investigation of the case carried out by the technical office for criminal investigation, ATIC, in the cell where the death took place, the police station and other alluding elements.
“We are conducting investigations through statements, witnesses, videos on cell phones and on cameras at the police station, which were there,” Mora explains. In addition, the official explained that at the time of the events, female national police officers were serving at the station, and not just men, as it turned out at first.
“The preliminary report of the forensics autopsy will not change. The death was due to mechanical asphyxiation,” Mora concluded. Forensic specialists point out that there is no more accurate version than that of a murder.
Police elements serving shifts at the police station have been called to testify and present physical and psychological examinations and studies. The investigation seeks to unravel Martínez’s mysterious death, although so far, despite becoming one of the most media suspected crime cases in Honduras, no people have been detained so far.