Overview
- A series of shootings left at least four people dead and one wounded across Lima and Pisco over Oct. 7–9, with crime scenes cordoned and forensics teams processing evidence.
- A retired police officer, Marcelino Llacchua Pacco, was killed after resisting the robbery of his truck in San Martín de Porres, investigators recovered his firearm and are reviewing surveillance footage.
- Two men reported as Venezuelan were gunned down in Villa El Salvador in an attack captured on security cameras that show an assailant exiting a car and shooting both victims.
- In Pisco a 28-year-old man, Jan Pier Córdova Escalaya, was shot dead inside a car wash and a 'jalador' near the Atocongo terminal was also killed amid transport workers' complaints of extortion by a group calling itself 'Los Mexicanos.'
- Authorities have collected ballistics and video evidence but have not reported arrests, and regional data show Ica has reached 77 violent deaths by homicide so far in 2026, underscoring concerns about rising lethal crime and extortion targeting transport and informal workers.