Rómulo Mendoza Asto (69), father of five children, left his home in Ate to go to work at the Santa Anita Farmers Market, but he was intercepted by unknown persons, apparently foreigners, who hit him hard on the head until he died. Then they left his body in a desolate place.
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On Thursday the 22nd, at 7:20 in the morning, the sixty-year-old took his van at the Horacio Zevallos whereabouts, Huaycán. Security cameras filmed him getting into the vehicle. He would have gotten off on Avenida Metropolitana, at the intersection with the aforementioned supply center, however his relatives said: “he never came to work”.
The relatives said that their bosses told them that they did not go to work that day.
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The hours passed and they did not know what had happened, so the next day they filed a missing persons report at the Huaycán police station. They also toured hospitals, medical centers and police stations in order to locate him, but nothing. They also put up posters with a photo of Don Rómulo and his physical characteristics and the clothes he was wearing that day.
They had no news until this Monday, in which one of his daughters identified him in the central morgue of Lima.
After learning about the tragedy, they believe that Don Rómulo was intercepted by Venezuelans with whom he would have worked as an assistant in a grocery store, within the Producers Market. These subjects left him lifeless, the same day, 80 minutes later, in a street in the AH ‘Nuevo sol’, Ate, not far from where he came down. He had blows to his face and head that could have been caused by a blunt object.
The same day they abandoned him, according to police information, the victim did not have an ID, shoes, cell phone, bank cards, or his backpack. For this reason, he was admitted as NN in the Lima morgue.
“It would be them for revenge because he would have seen that they did bad things with the merchandise. He didn’t have any other kind of problems, he always went from home to work and vice versa. They may have also made money withdrawals, but the Scotiabank bank does not show us the security cameras, it only blocked the card, but we want to know if withdrawals were made”they specified.
The bereaved also request that the municipalities of Ate and Santa Anita support them with the images to establish the route that Don Rómulo followed and to identify the license plate of the car or motorcycle taxi into which his executioners would have put him.
