PRESS RELEASE
The Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Nicaragua, informs the Nicaraguan families and other nationalities, that after having controlled the riot that originated on Thursday, May 16 at 2:30 pm in galleries 16 and 17 of the La Modelo Penitentiary System in Tipitapa; in which prisoner Eddy Antonio Montes Praslin, of 57 years of age, was injured after trying to snatch away the regulation weapon of a penitentiary officer along with other rioting prisoners. Montes Praslin was immediately carried to the nearest Hospital where he died.
According to legal procedures, Members of the National Police and Forensic Doctors arrived at the medical center to transfer the body of Montes Praslin to the Institute of Legal Medicine, in order to perform the corresponding autopsy.
As a result of this violent action, 21 penitentiary officers were also injured:
1. Jose Antonio Chacón Quintana, (54 years old).
2. Modesto Lucio Hernández Gómez, (38 years old).
3. Luis Antonio Ramírez Real, (34 years old)
4. Sheltom Alfonso Cruz Gutiérrez, (19 years old).
5. Luis Enrique Hernández García, (20 years old).
6. Kent Alexander Jorge Montenegro, 24 years old)
7. Eliezer Alexander Meza Gaitán, (30 years old)
8. Exequiel Isaías García Blandón, 27 years old).
9. Ricardo Gabriel Peralta Siles, (22 years old).
10. José Dick Martínez Rodríguez, (41 years old).
11. Moisés David Cano, (23 years old).
12. Luis Alberto Alemán, (20 years old).
13. Gilberto Rafael Escalante Gatica, (37 years old).
14. Dixon Alberto Mendoza Cruz, (24 years old).
15. Yordin José Centeno Gómez, (19 years old).
16. Duual Yamir Dávila Madriz, (21 years old).
17. Ronald Gustavo Castillo Palacios, (35 years old).
18. Silvio Manuel Meléndez Rodríguez, (33 years old).
19. Gessler Rafael López Marenco, (23 years old).
20. Jeyson Isaac Picado Granados, (22 years old).
21. Ewuing Santiago Acevedo Guerrero, (23 years old).
On Saturday, May 18, 2019, the relatives of the prisoner requested that in their presence a medical examination and verification of the findings of the autopsy be performed, hiring private doctors: Julia María González, Medical Specialist in Pathology and Legal Medicine, José Luis Borgen Rayo, Surgeon and Urologist and Francisco Ortega Guzmán, General Physician, all of who expressed that the autopsy performed by the Institute of Legal Medicine complied with the international forensic standards (Protocol of Istanbul) and coincided with the findings of the autopsy.
The National Penitentiary System, in compliance with its functions established under Law 473 "Penitentiary Regime and Verdict Execution Law", immediately requested that the National Police carry out the pertinent investigations in order to clarify the facts and identify those responsible.
A technical team composed of police investigators and criminology experts was present at 6:20 p.m. on the very same day, Thursday, May 16, at the prison facility in Tipitapa, where the investigations continue.
Once the investigations have concluded, the National Police will send the corresponding report, as well as those responsible, to the Public Ministry to answer for their crimes.
Given in the City of Managua on the twentieth day of the month of May of the year 2019.
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Ministry of the Interior