Overview

• Forensic experts are reviewing multi-angle video and lab analyses to determine whether a white van or a grey monovolumen caused the fatal run-over.
• José Manuel Bentos Montoya, 36, was killed when one of the vehicles accelerated into him during a mass brawl between the Bentos and Borja clans at a betrothal party.
• A judge ordered the victim’s brother into provisional pretrial custody on homicide charges, while five others were released under investigation with bans on entering Ribeira.
• The investigation’s complexity, involving two cars and conflicting witness angles, has prolonged efforts to reconstruct the sequence of events.
• Police have bolstered checkpoints and patrols around Ribeira and the A Conlleira settlement to quell fears of retaliatory violence stoked on social media.