Overview

• Oswal Moisés Ospino Navarro, Isaac Enrique Márquez Charris, Andrea Camila Berdugo Escorcia and Brian Augusto Cantillo Salcedo have been charged with aggravated homicide in connection with the killing of Alessandro Coatti.
• Police say the group lured the 42-year-old molecular biologist to an abandoned building in Santa Marta through an LGBTQ dating app before robbing and murdering him.
• Coatti was reported missing on April 4, and parts of his body were discovered in a suitcase and at multiple sites around the city starting April 6.
• Santa Marta’s mayor offered a 50 million-peso reward that led investigators to blood evidence at a Bogotá residence, prompting the arrests in June.
• Italian and Colombian authorities are collaborating on the investigation as the Royal Society of Biology mourns Coatti’s brutal death.