David Giménez, better known to everyone as ‘the Zobe’, was preparing to go to the Spook nightclub last night, in the Valencian town of Benetusser, with a friend to see one of her musical idols, British DJ Richie Hawtin. But she would never go to that techno music session in the well-known Pinedo room. The 32-year-old young man, a resident of the municipality, was killed that same night by at least two gunshotsapparently carried out from behind, in the middle of the street a few meters from his home.
The crime, which has advanced Lift-EMVfrom the Prensa Ibérica group, in its digital edition, occurred minutes before nine at night when the victim, who was well known and appreciated in the neighborhood for his friendly and partying nature, He went to a bar to buy a beer. Upstairs at his home, a friend with whom he had spent the afternoon was waiting for him.
The Civil Guard is trying to locate witnesses to the shots, which would have been fired by a low caliber weapon, apparently a .22. Only a couple of neighbors heard the explosions. “Everything happened very quickly, we thought he had collapsed on his own,” said neighbors who were nearby.
Two friends who were at the La Colmena bar, run by Chinese citizens, saw him lying on the ground on the corner of Párroco Eduardo Ballester Street and Palleter Street and moved him off the road in case a vehicle passed by. ran over, it was then that they noticed that he had bleeding wounds on his back.
The homicide group Civil Guard investigates the death of this 32-year-old young man shot dead in the middle of the street in Benetusser. “The only thing we know is that they found him lying on the ground, he collapsed,” an aunt of the deceased sobbed disconsolately.
Waiting for the pertinent autopsy to be performed this Thursday, in a first ocular inspection of the body The coroner would have seen at least two bullet holesas this newspaper has learned.
They tried to revive him for an hour.
The crime would have occurred minutes before nine at night in the middle of the street, a few meters from the police checkpoint. Local police of Benetusser. The victim, who lives nearby, went down to the street to buy a beer at the corner bar, at which time his assailant or assailants shot him dead in circumstances that are being investigated.
The Civil Guard is collecting testimonies from possible witnesses to this crime, which occurred on Párroco Eduardo Ballester Street on the corner of Palleter Street. At the moment there have been no arrests for these events.
Several police patrols immediately traveled to the scene. Local police of Benetusser and of the Civil Guardas well as an ambulance from SAMU. The health media tried to resuscitate the injured person for more than an hour But the attempts were useless and the young man ended up dying at the scene.
The Alfafar Civil Guard, in collaboration with the Benetússer Local Police, They established a perimeter with up to three police cordons to prevent family, friends and onlookers from approaching the crime scene.
He worked as a carpenter
Relatives of the deceased approached the scene, who could not explain what had happened. In fact, many of them suggested that he had suffered a heart attack. Once the Civil Guard notified his parents and sister that it was a crime, this newspaper reported the event.
Agents of the criminalistics group Civil Guard They carried out a thorough technical police inspection at the scene in search of shell casings and other possible remains. Judicial Police Agents They are investigating what happened and the judicial commission of the Catarroja guard court proceeded to remove the body after half past one at night, after nearly five hours of inspection at the crime scene. The lifeless body of David Giménez has been transferred to the Institute of Legal Medicine of Valenciawhere the autopsy will begin today, Thursday.
The victim’s profile
Zobe’s friends describe him as a fun person who won over everyone as soon as they met him. “He was a very good guy, the joy of the garden”, says a friend who has known him since he was twelve years old. They also agree that he did not get along with anyone.
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The first indications collected by the Civil Guard point to a possible reckoning over a drug debt, since the deceased was a consumer, although those around him assure that he was currently going through a good time and seemed very excited about new projects.
David He worked as a carpenter in his father’s company and has also worked as a chef. Among his hobbies, in addition to electronic music, he loved doing graffiti, according to his friends, many of whom approached the scene last night in disbelief and heartbroken over what had happened to Zobe. “It’s impossible, they couldn’t have shot him twice, I still don’t believe it.”