Doctor shot dead outside her home in Piura, Peru.
NEWS:
Pediatric gastroenterologist Minosska de Jesús Pinto Lazo was shot dead outside her home in Piura, Peru, in a daytime killing captured by a security camera.
The murder happened on April 10 in the San Felipe urbanization, near the San Luis Gonzaga school. Initial reports said the doctor was arriving at her apartment when a man approached her on foot and opened fire.
The security video shows a man walking toward Pinto Lazo as she is near the entrance to her residence. The footage shows the attacker get close to her, fire at her and flee the area. The video confirms the shooting itself, the close-range nature of the attack and the attacker’s escape on foot. It does not establish the full motive, who ordered the killing or every person involved outside the camera’s view.
Initial reporting said the shooter fired three times at the area of the victim’s head and neck. Later reporting said she suffered two gunshot wounds to the head and died at the scene. The available reports agree on the central point: Pinto Lazo was fatally shot outside her residence in San Felipe, and the killing was recorded by a nearby security camera.
Pinto Lazo was identified as a pediatric gastroenterology specialist. Reports after the crime said she left behind a young child. One early account cited a neighbor who said the child was only three months old, while later reports described the child more generally as a minor. Because the reported age of the child varies in the public accounts, the safer confirmed point is that she left a child motherless.
Police and prosecutors were called to the scene after the shooting. The area was secured, the body was removed and taken to the morgue, and the case moved into a homicide investigation.
The investigation later shifted from the immediate shooting to an alleged murder-for-hire plot. Police identified Luis Alejandro Rojas Guillén, known by the alias “Cara de Chancho,” as the suspected gunman. He was arrested on April 28 in Piura after an intelligence operation, according to police information reported after the capture.
Rojas Guillén was detained in a bar in the Buenos Aires settlement along with other people described by police as alleged members of a criminal group called “Los Monstruos del Norte.” Police said he was found with a Taurus firearm, 15 cartridges and about 500 grams of marijuana. He has denied being the shooter, according to later reporting.
The arrest produced a major development in the case because investigators said they had evidence linking him to the killing despite his denial. Police accounts said the suspect was identified through security camera analysis, image comparison and intelligence work.
The suspected structure of the crime includes several alleged roles. Investigators identified one man as the alleged shooter, another as the motorcycle driver who helped with the getaway, another as the person who allegedly watched the victim’s movements, and another as a person linked to the weapon and logistics. These allegations remain part of the investigative and judicial process, not final convictions.
William Seminario Girón, the victim’s husband, also became a key figure in the investigation. Prosecutors requested nine months of pretrial detention for him and other people investigated in connection with the killing. He has been described in later reports as the alleged intellectual author of the crime, but he has denied involvement.
Earlier in the case, Seminario Girón had been detained and later released after prosecutors found insufficient evidence at that stage to keep him in custody. After additional arrests and statements from other suspects, prosecutors moved forward with a request for pretrial detention. His defense rejected the allegations and said he would cooperate with the court process.
The court hearing on the pretrial detention request was delayed after a notification error involving one of the parties. The hearing was later rescheduled for May 5. The request involved five people investigated for alleged offenses connected to the killing, including aggravated contract killing and conspiracy, according to later reports.
One separate court decision had already ordered nine months of pretrial detention for Alejandro R. G., identified in reports as “Cara de Chancho,” but that measure was tied to a drug trafficking investigation after police reported finding marijuana. That ruling was not a final conviction for the murder of Pinto Lazo.
Investigators also examined weapons, shell casings, security footage, digital communications and alleged money transfers. Later reports said prosecutors were working with statements from detainees, phone evidence and financial traces that could help reconstruct the planning and escape after the crime.
One reported line of investigation points to a possible paid killing. Later accounts cited claims of a payment offer of 10,000 soles and alleged references to a person identified by suspects as “the doctor.” Those claims are part of the prosecution theory and have not been proven by a final judgment.
The case remains factually anchored by the video-recorded attack: Pinto Lazo was shot outside her home in Piura, the gunman fled, and she died from the shooting. The broader allegations about who planned the killing, who paid for it and what motive drove it remain dependent on the criminal investigation, prosecutor filings, suspect statements and court decisions.
News story written by DarkGore.
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