Colombian authorities have identified the man arrested this week for allegedly murdering his wife and daughter and attempting to move their bodies by car. According to Jorge Emilio Rey, governor of the department of Cundinamarca, the suspect is 44-year-old Donis David Fonseca, a native of the Cesar department who had previously served as a professional soldier and was working as a security guard at the time of his arrest.
Police stopped Fonseca’s vehicle after it was flagged for suspicious behavior along the Bogotá–Villavicencio highway, near kilometer marker 17+400 in the municipality of Chipaque, roughly an hour and a half southeast of the capital. Inside the car, officers discovered the lifeless bodies of Fonseca’s wife and daughter.
Preliminary investigations suggest the killings took place on September 7 in the Usme neighborhood of Bogotá, a working-class district on the city’s southern edge. Investigators believe Fonseca then drove the bodies out of the city toward Chipaque before he was intercepted.
Fonseca is now in the custody of Colombia’s Attorney General’s Office (Fiscalía) in a town in eastern Cundinamarca, where he awaits formal charges as the investigation continues.
For more details on this developing case, read the full report at El Tiempo.
Source: La identidad del exmilitar capturado cuando llevaba cadáveres de su esposa e hija en carro hacia Chipaque (eltiempo.com). English version produced with AI assistance.
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