crime

Police study similar crimes

Police are investigating the possible connection between the assassinations of Abdiel Tovares Quintana and Amet González Saurí, whose bodies were found last Tuesday in Montería, in Pedregal, and Tataré, in Pacora, respectively.

Investigators are studying some similarities between the two crimes, such as the duct tape placed on the victims' heads and the close-range shooting of both in the head.

Although Tovares was shot three times -once in the head and twice in the shoulder- investigators believe he survived the attack and had escaped to the Corredor Sur to look for help. He eventually died when Richard Kennedy, who tried to hide Tovares's body afterward, ran over him at full speed. Kennedy put Tovares's body inside a plastic bag and left it nearby Montería, police said.

The autopsy revealed that one of the bullets found in Tovares's shoulder came from a .38 revolver that was stolen from a businessman in San Felipe in 2006.

Forensics did not find anything inside Saurí body because the bullets "went through," they said.

Both victims' cell phones were analyzed to check on dialed and received calls to find out if the two were connected in any way.

The Fiscalía Cuarta Superior has paroled two people initially accused of complicity in the crime.