Abraham was killed on June 8, 2018, in front of the Palí supermarket.  At about 7:00 in the evening, a bunch of Sandinistas came out of the Carlos Rizo 1 and 2 neighborhoods.  Doña Juana says that in the first stage, on the street corner right in front of her mother’s house, “there was a pack of Sandinistas.  They hid a bunch of people they had brought down from the mountains on an empty lot on Fourth Street, and those same people had hidden more people in other houses belonging to Sandinistas on Second Street.”

She says that “suddenly the Sandinistas and the pro-government CPCs [Councils of Citizens’ Power] began to shout insults at the kids guarding the roadblocks.  They yelled ‘delinquents, thieves, shameless bums, go look for something to do.’  They bullied them so much that they goaded the kids into coming out from behind the barricades.  It was an ambush.  They shot at them and the kids ran, but they got my boy with a bullet in his back,” she says, grievously.

She describes how Abraham “ran by the house and his girlfriend shouted ‘‘Abraham, don’t go there!’ but he responded ‘I’ll be right back; I can run fast…’  He was with a friend who managed to survive and go to the United States.”   Days later, this friend told doña Juana that when they were being chased and shot at, he jumped into a ditch, but they shot Abraham in the back and he fell to the ground.  “The parish priest picked up his body, which had been left in the street, and brought him to the house in a pickup truck.  I didn’t want to believe it was him, but when I got home and saw him, I had to accept that it was and I said to my mother, ‘Mom, they killed our boy.’”