Teyler Leonardo Lorío Navarrete
Nelson was holding the boy in his arms when a bullet hit his little head. They desperately called out for help, and a woman let them enter her home. Still afraid of the shots, she washed his head, and Teyler had a convulsion. Karina ran desperately to ask for help, until someone on a motorcycle drove them to the Alemán Hospital.
Karina says they attended to Teyler quickly. They put him on a stretcher and placed a catheter in his mouth.
“Five minutes later, the doctor informed me that they couldn’t save him, and that I should get a box to receive his body,” she remembers. The certificate issued by the hospital indicated that the cause of 14-month-old Teyler Lorío Navarrete’s death was “suspected suicide.” The family asked why that was listed as the cause of death, but they never received an explanation.
On the morning of June 23, 2018, Nelson Lorío Sandoval and Karina Navarrete, parents of the baby Teyler Leonardo Navarrete, were late leaving their house. The day was gray and it looked like it would rain. Everything seemed calm, but they saw a lot of police. Later, they learned that the so-called Operation Clean-Up was being carried out this day, Father’s Day, in the 8 de Marzo and Américas 1 barrios.
As they walked in the Américas 3 barrio to the home of Teyler’s grandfather, they heard gunshots.