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ISSUE NO. 1651
23 Feb. - 1 March 2017
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Lured to death
Drugs killer surrenders after shooting by Simon Firth A drug trafficker shot dead a fellow dealer and then turned the gun on the man’s wife in front of their baby daughter. Detectives are working on the theory the killing, in a garage in Cartagena, follows a cocaine deal that went wrong. Police said both men had known each other for some years and were linked to ‘small-scale’ drug trafficking in the Jose Maria de Lapuerta neighbourhood.
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After the killing the man organised his own surrender to National Police officers. He told them he would give himself up but wanted a particular individual officer to be present. Police believe the meeting between the two dealers had been called to pay off a drugs debt involving around half a kilo of cocaine. The killer, who has a wife and two children, is said to have lured the man to a garage on the pretext of sort-
ing out the deal. But he then shot dead his fellow dealer, who had recently completed a prison sentence for drug-related offences. He also shot the man’s wife, named in reports as Josefina, although she survived her injuries. It is understood the injured woman worked in a perfumery store. The couple’s baby daughter was in the back of the car but was unharmed.
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