Young people set fire to the man because he had asked them not to use drugs at his window

A 58-year-old man, identified as William Saldarriaga, was burned 60% after asking a group of young people not to use drugs near his home., located in the popular district of San Luisito, east of the city of Cali.

The event would have occurred on Friday, April 26, when Saldarriaga looked out the window of his house and saw a jíbaro sell marijuana to a group of young people. Annoyed, he asked them to go consume the drug elsewhere.

Young people Angry, they left, but came back with a gallon of gasoline that they sprayed outside the house and inside through the windows and then l? burned with Saldarriaga inside.

"They were selling hallucinogens on the outskirts of my uncle 's house, he went out to make the request, they did it somewhere else, and one of them told him that". they were going to burn him if he was still bothered, and he went to sleep and he was sprinkled with gasoline, "said Felipe Saldarriaga, nephew of the victim, RCN Radio.

The flames spread very quickly and the man failed to leave his home. On their side, it was the neighbors who called the Cali Fire Department, while they were trying to extinguish the flames and rescue the victim.

Firefighters managed to extinguish the fire before it touched other nearby homes, with two fire extinguishers and a water tank car. And the man was immediately transferred to the Valle University Hospital; details RCN Radio.

In the burn unit of this medical center, Saldarriaga remains under a reserved prognosis, with First and second degree burns all over the body. While waiting for their recovery, their families asked the authorities to capture the perpetrators.

The Cali Metropolitan Police and the CTI of the Prosecutor's Office have already opened an investigation into the case and are carrying out the work in order to trace the identity of the perpetrators in order to be able to issue arrest warrants. against them.