A judicial official died after falling from the eighth floor in Ecuador: they say it was suicide

The bailiff Jorge Fernando Viteri Gonzalez41 years old, died this Thursday afternoon later fall from the eighth floor of a building located north of QuitoIn Ecuador.

According to Lieutenant Colonel Geovanny Rodríguez, deputy chief of the Eugenio Espejo district, everything seems to indicate that it was a suicide: “We are sure that it was a suicide. Yes examined the security cameras and that’s what it’s all about.”

“His family told us I suffered from depression and that he had already attempted to take his own life on two occasions,” he added.

The episode occurred this Thursday afternoon in front of the modern Floresta building, located on Avenida Carvajal, in the El Bosque sector. The victim died there he worked as secretary of the Prosecutor’s Office.

“We will give official information through institutional channels. We ask for professional ethics and prudence in respect of his family and friends,” said the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Ecuador.

This event comes just one day after the murder of Ecuadorian prosecutor César Suárez, who was shot more than 20 times during an attack carried out by drug cartel hitmen on Wednesday afternoon in an important avenue in the city of Guayaquil, the most violent. Village.

The magistrate, who days before had asked for protection to the authorities for his activity against organized crime, was traveling by car to a hearing when he was hit by another vehicle. One of its occupants then began shooting at Suárez, causing his death.

Hours later, they arrested two suspects in the murder of Suárez, who was in charge of investigating the takeover of a television channel by an armed group in Guayaquil.

“We have 2 suspects involved in the murder of prosecutor César Suárez arrestedin Guayaquil, at the end of investigative procedures which made it possible to identify the alleged participation in the criminal act”, wrote the general commander of the police, César Zapata, on his X (formerly Twitter) account.

This occurs after wave of violence who was unleashed against José Adolfo Macías Villamar, alias Fito, leader of the criminal gang The Conerosescaped on January 7 from the regional prison of Guayaquil.

Fito’s relatives, including his wife and three of his children, were arrested this Thursday in the midst of a mega operation that took place in the private neighborhood of Country del Golf, on the outskirts of the city of Córdoba.