Suspected gunmen arrested in Havana, Cuba

Writing CubitaNOW ~ May 28, 2023 Sunday

The Havana government announced on Sunday that the suspects believed to have carried out the shootings in Havana had been arrested.

“Last night, the joint forces of the Federal Ministry of the Interior (MININT) arrested civilians who, on May 25, in the municipality of Centro Habana, opened fire and injured two people. In information published through a profile controlled by State Security on social networks.

The two inmates were identified as Lázaro Reynier Valiente Mejías and Yordany Poyeaux Pozo, 34 and 26 years old, respectively. According to witnesses of the police operation, the two were hiding in a house in Los Callejones area in Reparto Electric, Arroyo. Municipality of Naranjo, Havana”.

“State security said the people helped capture those involved. One of them was the director of Deep Roots, a folk company that had nothing to do with the fight,” for the alleged crime of settling scores, which wounded two men, aged 37 and 50, on Consulato Street, between Anima and Trocadero.

“The victims of this unfortunate event are being continuously cared for by specialized health workers with permanent monitoring of evolution,” the official source said without giving further details.

Independent media Cubanet reported this Friday that the director of a dance company, Itolidia Ramos, who was injured in a shooting in central Havana this Thursday afternoon, is recovering.

“The choreographer underwent emergency surgery for a bullet wound in the gut. He is now out of danger and in a stable condition,” said the source, a neighbor in the area.

According to the version of State Security, later shared by the Centro Habana Municipal Assembly of People’s Power, the incident “started at first on public roads and then in the folk center, while a 37-year-old citizen fled from a charge. Computation”.