At approximately nine o’clock in the morning on April 22, the young man was on his way to the PALI Supermarket in La Fuente Neighborhood, at the time when residents of that area were facing Sandinista Youth activists that were intending to loot the store. The police began to shoot people and wounded Jessner, his uncle says.

The family went to look for him in the Manolo Morales Hospital and they told them that he was in the operating room; a little later, the doctor told them that he had died, due to lack of blood. In the hospital, they asked them to file charges in the District V Police Station, but once they were there, they were forced to sign a document withdrawing the charges against the police for the murder of Jessner. The death certificate issued by the hospital was altered, indicating that he had died from a knife wound.

The family waits for justice to be done. “We want the killers to pay in prison for the crimes that they committed, because they killed unarmed people. I am a Sandinista, but I am not a Danielista and it hurts me that they have sullied the Sandinista Front,” Norlan says.

And he adds, “In Nicaragua, we have a dictatorship, we are prisoners and we want to be free. My gentle one… I will remember you in my heart.”