Overview

• Three men were found executed with multiple gunshots in a remote area of San Martín de Porres near the El Paraíso site, with police pursuing an adjustment-of-accounts hypothesis and working to identify the victims.
• A 17-year-old was shot dead near his home in San Juan de Lurigancho, with reports pointing to either a robbery—after his phone and shoes were taken—or a dispute with other teens, and police are processing the scene.
• In Piura, four friends were ambushed while talking in the street, leaving three dead and one hospitalized, as relatives reject a police theory of score-settling and prosecutors gather evidence.
• INPE teams searched cells at Ancón I holding ‘El Jorobado’ and ‘JJ’, seizing cellphones, chargers and Wi‑Fi devices allegedly used to direct extortion outside the prison.
• In Argentina, two people who sold Damián Strada’s phone were charged with aggravated concealment as two suspects remain in pretrial detention, and the main suspect in Daiana Mendieta’s killing was ordered held 90 days after an autopsy confirmed a gunshot death.