Paúl Moreno was a fifth-year medical student at the University of Zulia and was a volunteer paramedic for the Green Cross [es].
On 18 May 2017, Paúl was nearby the Fuerzas Armadas Avenue in Maracaibo, when the driver of a vehicle rammed over a barricade, running over him and escaping from the scene.
[1] On 17 November 2017, Omar Barrios, held responsible for Paúl's death, was sentenced to 19 months of house arrest, after which he would have a presentation regime every 15 days.
The sentence signed by the judge in charge of the case, Yesiré Rincón, incorrectly established that Moreno died in 2009 and not in 2017,[2] and judge Rincón argued that the qualification of intentional homicide could not be applied because the criterion was approved in 2011.
The irregularity of the sentence was denounced in a statement by Carlos Moreno, Paúl's brother.