One woman killed another at her birthday party when they refused her a drink

Last Monday, April 29, Carmen Esther Caraballo Prada began celebrating her 51 years in her home in the Rebolo neighborhood, south of the city of Barranquilla, without imagining that her life would end that day due to intolerance of a neighbor. that she was not invited to the party.

It was already dawn on Tuesday, the party was extended but the guests were still drinking and dancing on the terrace of the house. About six o'clock in the morning, Griseldina Paternina, known as "China," pbaded by and wanted to enter the celebration.

He ordered a glbad of rum, which Caraballo gave him reluctantly. But when he asked for the second glbad of alcohol, the one that had been filled refused and asked Paternina to leave. Before leaving, she borrowed the bathroom, but came into the kitchen and took a knife that was on the table, which had apparently been used to break the cake the night before.

Paternina returned to the entrance to the house and without a word, stabbed Caraballo three times, causing injuries to her arms, chest and collarbone. The victim was immediately transferred to Barranquilla General Hospital, where she remained until last Wednesday afternoon, after her death.

"Griselina came to the party to congratulate Carmen, who asked for a drink and Caraballo agreed, gave one, but did not give him the second one and asked him to leave, which caused the anger of Paternina, "said witnesses. the newspaper The weather.

Griseldina Paternina was captured by the neighborhood police the same day she committed the crime in an area close to where it occurred. She was sheltered by a judge with an intramural insurance measure, held in Barranquilla Women's Prison, Buen Pastor.

The district's 25th district prosecutor of the first homicide alerts, Adolfo Niebles, charged Paternina with aggravated homicide, which she did not accept.