Young Model from Paraguay Found Shot Dead Inside her House
A young woman was murdered in the city of Presidente Franco, Paraguay.
The victim was visited by criminals in her home who shot her in the body and in the head. The Chief of Public Relations of the National Police of Alto Paraná, Augusto Anibal Lima provided details to our station about the macabre murder.
The event occurred in the Barrio Santa Inés de Pdte. Franco, around 4:30 a.m., the deceased woman was identified as Blanca Colmán, 24, received several gunshot wounds to the body and head. Absolutely nothing was stolen from the place where the murder was committed.
She had just returned moments earlier from dropping her boyfriend off at his job at a convenience store. She had waved to a neighbor on her way in so the time of her arrival was noted. Less than 2 minutes later several neighbors heard her screaming followed by five shots from her home. No assailant was seen or identified, but when the closest neighbor ran into the house to check on her, he crossed the living room to find her lying face down just inside her bedroom. She had been shot twice in the upper back and once in the back of her head.
Her boyfriend's son, who was only 4 years younger than her, was the only other one home at the time. He claimed he didn't hear the shots because he had smoked too much Marijuana that morning and was completely passed out. The police initially took him in as a suspect, but his THC levels were beyond enough to render him catatonic and after a lengthy interview they accepted his alibi. He also did not have a weapon nor was one found in the home.
The cops then turned their attention to an ex-boyfriend that had given her trouble in the past, but he was also later excluded from the list of suspects.
After several weeks of investigation, a series of leads brought them to the conclusion that she had been a witness to a shooting between a local drug gang and two policemen very close to the club where she danced several weeks earlier. Though she apparently had not ID'd the shooters or even spoken to the police, there was a message found in her phone from the previous week calling her a 'dirty puta' and telling her to 'keep her mouth shut or prepare her coffin.'
