Horrifying moment 14-year-old Colombian assassin ‘who has killed TWELVE people’ shoots dead victim

A 14-year-old boy who police linked to 10 previous murders, pulled out a gun and killed another two victims in cold blood.

The alleged teenager gang member was caught on camera blasting two men dead in cold blood at close range in a street in Colombia.

He could be been seen chatting to one victim outside an off-licence in the city of Medellin last Wednesday before opening fire six times.

As they both walk outside the shop, the boy then pulled a pistol from the waistband of his shorts and fired at three men on the pavement.

Police identified the victims as Dario Alexis Atehortua Guzman, 43, and Mateo Cuesta Prieto, 20.

Officers said that the 43-year-old died on the spot while the 20-year-old died from his wounds on the way to hospital.

A third person who was also shot and injured was treated in hospital and released the same day. 

According to Pablo Ruiz Garzon, Deputy Head of Police in Valle de Aburra, the boy fatally shot two shop workers outside the store.

In CCTV footage, a large man in a black T-shirt can be seen standing on the street just in front of a young boy, who waits until the larger man turns his back before pulling out a gun.

He then took aim and fired at the man in the black shirt who fled off-camera as well as another man at the bottom of the screen. He then also fired possibly at a third person before turning and fleeing.

The teen pictured at a police station after his arrest. Police linked him to 12 murders in total

Confused people who were in the shop could be seen coming out on the street to help the injured and one man appears to attempt to follow the teenage suspect who had already run away. 

Authorities said that the teenager suspected of carrying out the murders is a 14-year-old member of a local gang, who has since been arrested. 

Officers said the young alleged sicario – or hitman – had tried to evade capture by using his younger brother’s identity card, but they quickly rumbled his ruse. 

The boy pretended to be 13 as the age of criminal responsibility in Colombia is 14, according to local media. 

Attorney General, Néstor Humberto Martínez, said the boy is accused of 10 other homicides and that this year 600 children have been arrested for various crimes, according to Peruvian newspaper El Comercio.

Police spokesman Jorge Eliecer Camacho said the killing had been carried out after the leader of the ‘La Agonia’ gang, Paulo Andres Gomez Torres, aka ‘Pocho’, was arrested.

Luis Fernando Quijano, president of a human rights NGO called the Corporacion para la Paz y el Desarrollo Social (Corporation for Peace and Social Development), said that despite his young age, the way the teenager operated made it clear that he was ‘not somebody who had just started working for the gang’.

The boy pulled the pistol from the waistband of his shorts and blasted two men dead and injured a third person off-camera

After firing at the men in the street the young gunman turned and fled in the opposite direction

He said the problem with underage violence was highlighted only eight days ago when teenage gunmen had been arrested in Bello, in the northern area of Valle de Aburra, after a shootout with police.

Mateo Gonzalez, vice secretary of the Operative department of the Security Secretary of Medellin, said: ‘We can continue investigating and arresting these gang members and their leaders, but in my opinion we need to take a wider approach to this as a society to ask ourselves what is happening here. 

‘Where was the family of these children? Why were they not at school?’

Local media have reported that the teen will most likely be sent to a correctional facility for the time being as he is still too young to go to jail.

A judge will decide at a later date if the boy will be charged over the previous ten murders.