Baralt Avenue barber was beaten to death by his boyfriend

The romantic partner of Anthony Joshue Barreto Núñez was the one who murdered him in his barbershop on Baralt Avenue in Caracas, reported the director of the Scientific and Criminal Investigation Corps (Cicpc), Douglas Rico.

Rico detailed through his official Instagram account The perpetrator was identified as Taylor Rafael Pérez Mota, 37 years old. This was the victim’s partner, with whom he worked at the barbershop.

The two had an argument when Barreto found a series of messages on Pérez’s phone that made clear the “existence of a third person” in the relationship.

The “heated and hostile” situation led Pérez to look for a wooden bat that was in the premises to hit Barreto until he died.

“He hit him in various parts of the body and in the brain region until he died,” said the police chief.

He faked robbery at the Baralt barbershop

After committing the act, the perpetrator stole $1,000 in cash that was in a drawer in the store. With this action he intended to investigate the motive for the robbery as the cause of Barreto’s death. The victim’s phones were left in the premises, while Pérez left the place on his motorcycle heading to Antímano, in the west of Caracas.

In Antímano he threw the bat and the clothes he was wearing when committing the crime into the Guaire River. Then he went to his home, where he changed and sent messages to Barreto’s phones to continue misleading the authorities. He also washed the shoes and hid the stolen money in his mother’s room. That day he did not leave his residence again.

The next day he returned to the barbershop and pretended that he had found his partner’s body. He then informed the authorities “pretending to be an indirect victim of the alleged robbery.”

The case was left to the order of the Public Ministry. As evidence, the Cicpc recovered the stolen money, the perpetrator’s motorcycle and clothing soaked in blood.

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