He walked in as a client and left as a killer
En un distrito costero del sur del Perú, un abogado de 55 años fue asesinado a tiros en su propio despacho por un hombre que se hizo pasar por cliente, un acto que convierte el espacio de la confianza profesional en escenario de traición mortal. Cinco meses después, la policía capturó a Alexander Enrique Jiménez Díaz, un joven extranjero de 23 años, cerrando parcialmente una herida que había permanecido abierta desde abril. El arresto devuelve al caso su dimensión humana, pero las preguntas sobre el motivo y los vínculos entre víctima y victimario siguen sin respuesta, recordándonos que la justicia avanza a veces en silencio, y siempre de forma incompleta.
- Un hombre entró a una oficina legal fingiendo necesitar ayuda y disparó cinco veces a sangre fría, convirtiendo un acto de confianza en una ejecución.
- Durante cinco meses, el caso permaneció abierto: había un rostro pero no un nombre, un crimen pero no una explicación.
- Los investigadores de homicidios de Arequipa rastrearon conexiones que cruzaron fronteras hasta dar con Alexander Enrique Jiménez Díaz, quien fue detenido en septiembre.
- La captura cierra el vacío de impunidad, pero el móvil del crimen, si hubo instigadores y la naturaleza exacta del vínculo entre ambos hombres siguen siendo preguntas abiertas.
- La investigación continúa, suspendida entre el hecho probado y la verdad aún por revelar.
Cinco meses después de que un abogado fuera asesinado en su despacho en Chala, un pequeño distrito de la provincia de Caravelí en la región Arequipa, la policía peruana arrestó al presunto responsable. La víctima era Eddy Martín Siguas Reyes, de 55 años, quien atendía clientes en su oficina de la avenida Primero de Noviembre cuando un hombre joven, delgado y aparentemente tranquilo, entró diciendo que necesitaba asesoría legal. Una vez dentro, sacó un arma y disparó cinco veces. Siguas murió en el lugar. El asesino se marchó sin prisa aparente.
Los agentes que llegaron a la escena encontraron cinco casquillos de bala y rastros de sangre en el suelo. Un familiar del abogado describió al atacante como sereno, casi metódico. Durante meses, el caso quedó suspendido: había una descripción física pero ningún nombre, un crimen documentado pero sin motivo conocido.
Fue la División de Investigación Criminal de Arequipa la que, tras un trabajo sostenido de rastreo de conexiones y seguimiento de pistas que se extendían más allá de las fronteras peruanas, llegó hasta Alexander Enrique Jiménez Díaz, un ciudadano extranjero de 23 años, quien fue capturado a finales de septiembre.
Sin embargo, el arresto no cierra el caso del todo. Los investigadores aún trabajan para determinar qué relación existía entre el abogado y su presunto asesino, si Jiménez actuó por cuenta propia o por encargo, y cuál fue el detonante de un crimen que transformó una mañana de trabajo ordinaria en el último día de un hombre.
Five months after a lawyer was shot dead in his office in a small Peruvian district, police arrested a 23-year-old foreign national they believe pulled the trigger. The arrest came in late September, closing a gap that had stretched from April through the dry months of winter in the southern highlands.
The victim was Eddy Martín Siguas Reyes, fifty-five years old, a lawyer working out of an office on Primero de Noviembre Avenue in Chala, a district in Caravelí province in the Arequipa region. On an ordinary day in April, a man walked into his office. The man said he needed legal help. He was thin, unremarkable enough to pass as a client. Once inside, he pulled a gun from his waistband and fired five times. Siguas fell. The shooter left the office and disappeared into the streets.
The police who arrived at the scene found blood pooled on the floor and five spent bullet casings scattered across it. A family member of the dead lawyer told investigators that the gunman had been lean and dark-haired, that he'd seemed calm, that he'd simply walked in and executed his business with brutal efficiency. For months after, the case sat open—a murder with a face but no name, a motive locked away somewhere no one could reach it.
The arrest of Alexander Enrique Jiménez Díaz, a foreign national, came as the result of work by Arequipa's Criminal Investigation Division. Homicide detectives traveled to Chala after the initial officers secured the scene, and they began the slow work of tracing connections, following leads that stretched across borders and through the networks of people who might have wanted Siguas dead. What they found eventually led them to Jiménez, who was taken into custody.
The investigation is not finished. Homicide detectives are still working to establish why the killing happened and what relationship, if any, existed between the lawyer and his killer before that April morning. Whether Jiménez acted alone or on someone else's instruction remains unclear. Whether this was a crime of passion, a contract killing, a case of mistaken identity, or something else entirely—these questions are still being asked in the offices where investigators sit with their files and their photographs and their timeline of events.
What is certain is that a fifty-five-year-old man who went to work that day did not come home. His office became a crime scene. And five months later, someone was finally arrested for what happened there.
Notable Quotes
A family member reported that a thin man entered the office, was received as a client, then drew a firearm from his waistband and fired multiple times before fleeing— Family member of the victim, to investigators
The Hearth Conversation Another angle on the story
Why did it take five months to find him? Was he hiding, or were investigators slow?
The source doesn't say. He could have fled the region, changed his appearance, gone to ground with people protecting him. Or the investigation could have been methodical—following paper trails, building a case solid enough to hold in court. Five months isn't unusual for a murder investigation, especially if the killer had no obvious connection to the victim.
Do we know if this was personal or professional? Did the lawyer have enemies?
Nothing in what we have suggests that. The fact that the killer posed as a client is interesting—it means he needed access, needed to get close. That could mean he knew the lawyer's routine, or it could mean he was just being cautious. The detectives are still trying to figure out what connected them.
A 23-year-old foreign national—where was he from?
The source doesn't specify his nationality, only that he was foreign. That detail might matter enormously to investigators, but it's not in what we know yet.
Five shots seems personal. Angry.
Or it could be the opposite—methodical, making sure. Five casings on the floor, five impacts on the body. That's not panic. That's someone who came prepared and did what he came to do.
What happens now?
He's in custody. Homicide investigators continue their work. They're looking for motive, for connections, for the thread that ties a 23-year-old foreigner to a 55-year-old lawyer in a small district in the highlands. Until they find it, the case remains incomplete.