Bryan Yeraldín Murillo López
She cracked the door open, and agents from the Police Special Operations Unit (DOEP) abruptly and violently pushed open the door, without any warrant. They said they “were looking for delinquents.” Bryan ran to the patio, a small alley with no exit, about two meters wide, and they shot him there. Bryan was the first shot. The bullets hit him in the thorax, and he died almost instantly. His brother, Kenner Jovany Murillo López, 26 years old, was seriously wounded by a bullet to his abdomen.
According to relatives, the attack was in retaliation for having been at the barricades in 2018. Human rights organizations indicate that these “selective executions” have been carried out in 2019 against those opposing the government.
Marina López Carrión, the mother of Bryan Yeraldín Murillo López, recalls that in the early morning hours of July 17, 2019, at approximately 4:30 a.m., she heard someone pounding on the door, and immediately went out to the living room. Her son Bryan was asleep on a mattress, since he was staying with her for a few days. When she asked who it was, they did not respond and pounded more insistently on the door.