Jessner Josué Rivas

On April 22, 2018, at around nine o’clock in the morning, Jessner Josué Rivas went to the PALI Supermarket in La Fuente Neighborhood, which was being looted by mobs. When he was traveling on the north side of the Japón School, west of the commercial establishment, he was hit with a bullet in the upper part of the left nipple, without an exit wound. According to the family’s accounts, the shots were fired by police that had entered the annex of the Adolfo Reyes Neighborhood, popularly known as El Nancite. Wounded, Rivas was transported to the Manolo Morales Hospital, where he died in the afternoon. His grandmother, Maritza Rueda, denounced that the doctor changed the evidence, stating on the death certificate that he had a “knife wound” (stab wound). The police recorded him as having a criminal history and, in order to receive the body, the family had to sign a document indicating that they would abandon all legal processes.