María José Estupiñán Sánchez, a 22-year-old university student, was murdered Thursday morning in front of her home in the El Bosque neighborhood of Cúcuta. As the hours passed, new details have come to light, revealing the brutality of the crime and the alleged perpetrator.
Estupiñán, a Social Communication student at Francisco de Paula Santander University (UFPS), was shot at point-blank range several times; one of the bullets hit her face.
The incident occurred around 8:30 a.m. when, according to witnesses, a suspected delivery man arrived at the young woman's home, located on Avenida 3A and Calle 11, pretending to deliver a gift. The attack occurred in front of neighbors and passersby, who were paralyzed by her mother's screams of pain.
The crime occurred just one day after María José attended a hearing at the Prosecutor's Office as a victim of domestic violence.
According to the newspaper La Opinión, on Wednesday, May 14, the young woman obtained a favorable ruling requiring her former partner, with whom she allegedly had a relationship marked by episodes of abuse, to pay her 30 million pesos in compensation.
