Father and son murdered and dismembered 19-year-old boy

A violent murder of a 19 year old boy occurred in the tropical village of Tasharja in Guatemala. A father and his son they cut the young man to pieces and they threw the body parts to the skirt of a mountain near the municipality of San Juan Ermita.

According to him, Domingo Lopez Gutiérrez, 52, and Silverio Lopez Quizar, 23, have reportedly a knife to kill then dismember the body of the victim. Both were arrested and are now facing justice.

In detention, the police seized two clothes stained with blood In addition, in the López family's house, officers also recorded other blood stains on the walls and on a piece of wood, according to investigators from the Criminal Investigation Branch.

The operation took place in the village of El Roblarcito, village of Quequezque, in the municipality of San Juan Ermita, in the department of Chiquimula. For the time being the causes of the murder are unknown, but the authorities believe that it is about another case of "Justice by his own hand".

Lynchings in Guatemala

At least 348 people have died and 1,312 others have been injured in lynchings registered in Guatemala between 2008 and 2018. Although court-ordered court cases were reduced in the country last year, they were registered 4 dead and 54 wounded.

According to the organization Grupo de Apoyo Mutuo (GAM), which produced these statistics, there would be in 2017 21 dead by lynching and 91 people were injured in different parts of the country, the year with the highest number of deaths in 2013, with 53 casualties.