The key testimony of Mateo Reyes, who was traveling by car with Ana María Castro on the night of her death

Paul Naranjo and Julián Ortegón are charged with aggravated femicide in the case of the young Ana María Castro who died on March 5, 2020. They were in the front of the car from where, apparently, she was thrown causing her death that night -the. However, there is another important testimony: that of Mateo Reyes, the man who was in the back of the black Kia Sportage with Castro. Time managed to get to know exclusively the version that the latter gave on the day of the tragedy.

The man assured that he had met Ana María through mutual friends at a certain Andrés’ house and that they only saw each other at parties, so on Wednesday March 4 at 4.30 p.m. he sent her a message for them to leave. to drink with other friends. She arrived in an Uber that he helped her pay for, on 116th Street, between freeway and 19, he said. Then he explained that around 6:00 p.m. they entered Area 116, where they stayed until 8:30 p.m. when they moved to El Chupe, a nearby bar, and after a while some friends returned home and d ‘others to eat. Mateo said he also wanted to leave but Ana María insisted they move to Cantina, the last establishment the young woman would enter in her life.

In his account, Reyes claims that that night they shared with several friends he met and Ana, but that he was no longer feeling well due to the amount of alcohol he had ingested. “We had drunk whiskey, brandy, beer. So I already felt very bad, I don’t remember leaving the bar ”, He expressed and at the insistence of the prosecutor’s office, as the capital newspaper learned, Mateo denied the drug use that night, but referred to him, he is not sure if the others did.

The man said that when he got into Paul’s Sportage, (which he denies knowing before), one of the two up front tells him that they can’t get him home and goes downstairs with Ana in the street. 80 with 69P, where it all happened, and explained that the young woman was talking to the occupants of the car through the window of the Kia, but she is not sure if it was at the front or back. “I heard Ana arguing with some of them and I asked them “ why, why ” and every moment the one driving starts and since Ana was leaning against the glass I don’t not know if it is that she got caught in the car and because it started so fast he fell to the ground and hit his head. I don’t know if the car is dragging it but it turns before it falls, ”reads the document held by El Tiempo.

This version was not touched by Julián Ortegón or Paul Naranjo, who explain that she was left alive on the platform with the man and that they got out of the car because Paul was disturbed that they kissed and touched each other when he pretended to the young woman. . However, Mateo’s testimony presents contradictions or changes in the account because according to witnesses who arrived later, Ana María was seen in a pool of blood and Mateo, perhaps, on the hood of a car, saying that ‘they had been thrown out of the truck.

In his testimony, Mateo says he doesn’t remember a lot of things, nor what happened between when he called his girlfriend Valeria to help him and when she arrived he was already with the police and that the young woman had been transferred to the hospital. so they took him to Cai Las Ferias. “Valeria tells me that I gave many versions, but I don’t remember,” Mateo pointed out.

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