Suspect Arrested in Archbishop’s Killing
The head of a Cali-based gang that allegedly trains young assassins was arrested in the slaying of the city’s archbishop, officials said Tuesday.
John Jairo Maturana was arrested in a police-army operation Monday in Cali, Colombia’s third-largest city. Authorities said they believed that Maturana had information about the slaying of Archbishop Isaias Duarte Cancino or took part in the killing.
Maturana’s was the first major arrest in the March 16 killing.
The archbishop was killed as he left a group wedding in an impoverished Cali neighborhood.
Authorities have said they suspect that cocaine traffickers were behind the slaying.
In a brief television report, Maturana told reporters he was innocent.
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