Colombia: The incredible story of a taxi driver who was carrying a deceased person without knowing it

Monday at 2 o'clock in the morning, Camilo Cárdenas was looking for a gas station in Bogotá. The plan was to fill the tank of his taxi and then go home, ending a long day of work.

But as he told El Tiempo newspaper in Bogotá, the plan did not work out as he thought.

In undertaking the return, a woman stops him. Cárdenas will have reflected once again and stopped. The woman went up and told him to do a few more blocks.

Also according to the story of El Tiempo, Cardenas followed the instructions and found himself in a hotel where waited friends of the woman.

Cárdenas entered the car on the hotel parking lot to allow the woman's friends to get in the taxi. There were three. Two left with the third who was "drunk".

"I told them that I took them where they wanted, but on the condition that this person does not vomit in the car," said the taxi driver, explaining that "the drunkenness" was wearing a diver with a hood.

Behind was the woman, the "drunkenness" and one of the men who tried to cover the face of "his friend".

"When I looked in the rearview mirror, I could not see that person's face," Cardenas remembers.

The taxi driver says that these people had a Venezuelan accent, that they asked him to take them to the Restrepo neighborhood and that they talked to each other and said to each other: "If you see, the party was very good but she been gone, so next time I will not take so much. "

At one point, when they arrived at Restrepo, the pbadengers wanted to change their route, but the taxi driver objected. Until now, he had arrived. And it was time to leave. And the four pbadengers, including those who seemed drunk, got out of the car. "I told them that the race cost 17,000 pesos, they gave me 20,000 and they told me to leave it like that," he said.

But then the weirdest thing happened. When the cab turns around, he sees the woman and two of the men on the run. "I realized that something had happened to the guy I was taking in. I saw two traffic police officers and shouted out that they were for these three people, but they did not do anything, "he said.

He searched for a police officer and found one at a checkpoint. He told her that something strange had happened. The policeman reported on the radio. "He told me that I was (calm), that I left." But Cardenas returned to the place alone. Without getting off the taxi, he slowly crossed the area where his pbadengers had gone. And there, just behind a garbage man on a grbady ground, he saw them: a pair of sneakers. And there he understood.

He still went looking for the police. He found a motorized patrol and told them to follow him, knowing that there was a body. The police followed him and, already on the spot, noticed that the man, "the drunkard", the one who was wearing the hood, the one who "had spent the holiday with his soul", had received two shots of fire in the face.

Later, it was learned that the victim was Cristian David Cárdenas Almanza, about 30 years old. And the police are investigating to clarify the crime.

And the taxi driver? He is both a key witness and a suspect.