Authorities from the Judicial Investigation Agency detained the suspect of massacring five university students in Liberia. It is a man surnamed Ríos Mairena and he is 33 years old. The subject was a victims’ neighbor and he was family of the people who rented the house: this is how he had direct access to the housing where they lived.
The man was wanted since January 19th, when an emergency call to the 9-1-1 informed about a massacre in a house in Liberia.
Director of the Judicial Investigation Organization (OIJ) Walter Espinoza said that he is a hostile, aggressive man, who has a dissociative disorder, is obsessive and drug abuser. The first hypothesis is that the subject was obsessed with one of the girls whom he killed. At the crime scene, authorities found fingerprints that match with the suspect’s, as well as other biological samples that link him directly to the crime.
The suspect would have entered through a side door. Apparently, the man had consumed some kind of hallucinogen the day he committed the crime. In fact, the subject has a record on drug trafficking.
The events occurred on January 18th and the early morning of January 19th. A women received a message that said “please do not hurt me.” She and her husband heard it after 6:30 am that day and immediately recognized the neighbor’s voice.
When they arrived at her house, they found five people killed and one more injured, still alive.