Gunman kills woman and wounds man in fatal shooting near San Carlos Market in San Juan de Lurigancho, Peru.
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A gunman walked up behind a couple and opened fire at close range near San Carlos Market in San Juan de Lurigancho, Lima, killing the woman and seriously wounding the man in a shooting captured by a surveillance camera on May 15, 2026.
The attack occurred in the commercial area around the intersection of El Sol and Wiesse avenues, close to the San Carlos station of Lima Metro's Line 1. The couple had been walking near a liquor store outside the market when the shooter approached from behind.
The surveillance footage directly records the attack. The man wearing a light-colored cap closes the distance behind the couple and raises a handgun. He fires repeatedly from close range, directing several shots toward the woman's head. He continues shooting as the two victims fall, then moves away from them while still holding the weapon.
People standing and walking nearby immediately scatter after the gunfire begins. The shooter leaves the immediate scene while the woman remains on the pavement and the wounded man lies nearby.
The woman died at the scene. The man was taken to the Hospital de San Juan de Lurigancho for emergency treatment and was initially reported to be in serious condition.
Police investigators and forensic personnel later processed the shooting scene and recovered multiple spent cartridge cases. Published accounts differed on the precise number, with totals ranging from seven to nine. The discrepancy does not affect the central sequence documented by the CCTV footage, which clearly records multiple shots being fired during the attack.
The woman's identity was not publicly established in the first reports. Later accounts published conflicting versions of her full name, although several identified her as a 35-year-old woman with the surname Zelada Lector. Because no publicly accessible primary police, prosecutorial or court record was located that conclusively resolves the difference in the reported name, her identity is not stated here as a settled fact.
The wounded man's age was also reported differently in subsequent accounts, appearing as both 41 and 44. Initial reporting consistently described him as having survived the scene and being taken to a hospital with serious gunshot wounds.
Police began reviewing surveillance footage from the area and collecting ballistic evidence as part of the effort to identify the shooter. Investigators treated the attack as a targeted shooting rather than a robbery, but no publicly verified motive was established in the immediate aftermath.
Nearly four weeks later, on June 11, police detained 38-year-old Diego Armando Pariona Medina in San Juan de Lurigancho and identified him as a suspect in the case.
The arrest was carried out by officers associated with the Brigada Especial Contra el Crimen in San Juan de Lurigancho after investigative work connected him to the May shooting. Police information released after the detention said a pistol magazine loaded with seven rounds was recovered during the operation.
Pariona Medina denied involvement when he was detained.
Police also said investigators intended to conduct an anthropometric comparison between the detained suspect and the gunman recorded on surveillance video. Such an examination compares physical characteristics visible in recorded images with those of a person under investigation. Authorities also planned forensic examination of the firearm-related evidence recovered during the investigation.
The arrest did not, by itself, establish that Pariona Medina was the gunman. Police described him as a suspect, and the surveillance footage independently proves the shooting but does not by itself establish the legal identity of the person holding the gun.
Investigators were examining the possibility that the shooting was connected to a personal or criminal dispute. That remained an investigative theory rather than an established motive, and no publicly available primary document reviewed for this article established who ordered the shooting or why the couple was targeted.
Later information also created uncertainty about the final medical outcome of the wounded man. Some June 11 accounts referred to the case as a double homicide and described both members of the couple as dead. Another account published the same day continued to state that the woman had been killed while the man had been seriously wounded. No publicly accessible official record was located that conclusively confirms his subsequent death, so he is described here only according to the last consistently established status: seriously wounded after the attack.
The strongest independently observable evidence remains the surveillance recording itself. It shows the couple together near San Carlos Market, the gunman approaching them from behind, multiple close-range shots being fired, both victims collapsing and people nearby fleeing from the gunfire.
As of the latest publicly available information located for this report, police had made the June 11 arrest and announced further forensic comparisons, but no publicly accessible final ballistic result, anthropometric conclusion or court ruling establishing the suspect's responsibility for the shooting was located.
News story written by DarkGore.
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