Marlon José Orozco Largaespada
“We were all angry and couldn’t understand why they had killed him”
Murdered on May 24, 2018, in Managua
Marlon José Orozco was from Managua. He lived in Villa Libertad and was married to Francis Indiana Mejía. His three children, Jeffrey, Sahid and Vicky, were all high school graduates, something which gave him great pride.
His dream was for them to become professionals. People affectionately called him “Pipoca,” because he was skinny and had a big nose, and he looked like a Brazilian actor from the soap operas. He liked to dance and always helped his neighbors. He was a refrigeration technician, and a very experienced bricklayer.
Facts
Witnesses say that the motorcyclists pulled Marlon out of the car, put him up against a wall and beat him with a gun butt. He fell face down, and they shot him in the head. This was at the carpentry shop, across from the El Madroño restaurant.
One of Marlon’s relatives contacted his family at 11:30 p.m., and they went to look for his body. The Forensic Examiner’s office didn’t call, “because they were going to open him up and give us an empty body,” says his wife. “All of us were angry and couldn’t understand why they had killed him.” According to a private physician, the fact that the encephalic mass was scattered on the ground indicates that it was a shot from an AKA, at close range. The death certificate specifies “a serious cranioencephalic trauma,” due to “a traffic accident.” The government’s Commission on Truth, Justice and Peace registers his death as “a death unrelated to the conflict,” the victim of a robbery and homicide.
Francis Indiana Mejía Sequeira, the wife of Marlon José Orozco Largaespada, remembers that on May 24, he was home because he didn’t have a job. At night he went out with his brother. They left in his brother’s car, which had Nicaraguan flags hung on both sides. They ran into a group of hooded government supporters on motorcycles at the Primero de Mayo gas station. Marlon’s brother turned the car around to leave, but the guys on motorcycles followed them and shot at them, until their tires were punctured. The car crashed.
Memory
Managua
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