Junior Alexander Rojas
“We heard shots near the house, and went out and saw all of the kids at the ‘El Alacrán’ corner running away. We asked: ‘Where is Pío? and they answered, ‘They killed Pío.’ My other son headed to the corner, but the anti-riot forces had already thrown the bodies into their trucks to take them to the morgue at the Oscar Danilo Rosales Hospital. That is where he found my oldest son, thrown down in a hallway, naked, without a shirt or shoes. A doctor said: ‘There is that dog. Take him.’ But since he was all dirty because he had been dragged, he cleaned him. They wrapped him in a small piece of cloth, that’s how they delivered him, without any papers. The anti-riot forces killed my son with a bullet to the head. He was murdered together with another youngster, Alex Enrique Machado, the son of doña Luisa Sánchez, right there in the El Alacrán corner, next to a tigüilote tree,” recalls doña Aura.
On that 5th day of July 2018, hundreds of anti-riot police and hooded paramilitaries burst into León. “It was like a war. They came in shooting, without mercy, and knocking down the barricades,” recalls Aura Marina Rojas, mother of Junior Alexander Rojas. Junior hadn’t been involved up until that date, but when he saw this attack, he decided to defend his friends. He grabbed a homemade mortar, but as he left his house a group of anti-riot police came into the patio shooting.