Overview
- Workers at a store on Avenida Velasco Astete, near the junction with Jirón Ismael Bielich, noticed a strong odor on Thursday night and alerted police, who discovered a body inside a black vehicle.
- Security video shows the car arriving around 4:40–4:53 a.m. on Tuesday, the occupant placing an item in a trash receptacle, then moving to the passenger seat without being seen exiting again.
- A Sunarp query indicates the vehicle with plate IO-3320 is registered to Walter Alfonso Rivera Paredes, with 24 Horas reporting the owner is 52 and sells cars, though it has not been established that he is the deceased.
- Police found personal belongings inside, including a driver’s license bearing the name Juan Carlos Aurelio Silva la Rosa, leaving the victim’s identity pending official confirmation.
- PNP forensic teams, Criminalística personnel, and a prosecutor processed the scene, transferred the vehicle to the local station, and have not determined a cause of death, with no other person or vehicle seen approaching the car in the footage.