According to the prosecutor’s office, the prosecutor of the People’s and Guarantees Unit in Guayaquil, Édgar Escobar, 43, was killed in front of the headquarters of the General Prosecutor’s Office (FGE).
“The prosecutor of the Guayaquil People and Guarantees Unit, Édgar Escobar, was shot this morning in front of the La Merced building,” the Office announced.
Attorney General Diana Salazar expressed her outrage over the killing of Escobar Zambrano.
#URGENT
The exact moment where @PoliciaEcuador capture one of the suspected killers of prosecutor Edgar Escobar in #Guayaquil.
The arrest was made in Santa Ana Hill.#Video#elflakoimforma @EmergenciasEc @fabriciovelav pic.twitter.com/wsD2SV0zEs— EDISON MENDOZA (@FLACOMENDOZA1) September 19, 2022
This is the moment that @PoliciaEcuador caught one of the Sicarios who carried out the murder of the prosecutor Edgar Escobar in front of the Merced building @FiscaliaEcuadorshow that the said prosecutor was shining his shoes before entering his office. pic.twitter.com/Seup5eoQe2
– DIVINE JUSTICE (@CorruptaJustici) September 19, 2022
“I am deeply outraged by this new murder of a fellow prosecutor, the third this year. Criminal actions will not stop the work of the Prosecutor’s Office to fight crime in our country. We ask for guarantees and security to do our job,” Salazar wrote on her Twitter account.
I am deeply outraged by this new murder of a fellow prosecutor, the third so far this year. Delinquency actions will not stop the work of the Prosecutor’s Office to fight crime in our country. We require guarantees and security to perform our work. https://t.co/Je6YJtIH5z
— Diana Salazar M. (@DianaSalazarM2) September 19, 2022