Campo Elías Delgado
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| “ | I have a problem. I don't love my mother. | „ |
| ~ Campo Elías Delgado Morales. |
Campo Elías Delgado Morales (May 14, 1934 - December 4, 1986) was a Colombian mass murderer who perpetrated the Pozzetto massacre in Bogotá, Colombia killing 29 people with a revolver on December 4, 1986 before being killed by police.
Biography edit
Campo Elias Delgado Morales was born on May 14, 1934 in Chinacota, Norte de Santander, Colombia but later moved with his parents Elias Delgado and Rita Morales to Bucaramanga. after several years of fights at home his father would commit suicide with a revolver shooting himself in the head which affected Campo Elias and he began to feel resentment towards his mother because he saw her as the guilty one. in 1965 he enlisted in the united states army to fight in the vietnam war and in 1970 he served in the second tour as a volunteer, he was an electronic engineer, and was part of the united states air force where he would obtain some distinctions in 1978 he left the american army and obtained american nationality. He lived for some time in New York until he returned to Colombia to live in Bogota, where he was teaching private English classes and taking postgraduate studies at the Javeriana University.
The Pozzetto Massacre edit
Prelude edit
On december 3, 1986 at 12:00 a.m. Campo Elias went to the bank in Bogota where he withdrew his savings of $49,896.93 of Colombian pesos (2,167,031.46 in today's), about $44,674. dollars That same afternoon he bought a Smith & Wesson Model 31-1 revolver .32 caliber and 500 rounds of ammunition.
December 4, 1986 edit
On the night of December 3, Campo Elias Delgado murdered his mother with 3 stab wounds the next day he had scheduled an English class with the daughter of a friend of his mother Claudia Rincon, who lived with his mother Nora Becerra de Rincón, he would stab them both to death and then return to the apartment where his mother lived where he would set her body and the apartment on fire. Campo Elías would go out into the street with revolver in hand shouting "Fire! Fire!" some ladies who approached him were killed with shots in the head, then he would go to apartment 301 where he killed two young university students. and killed two other people. At 19:30 p.m. the same day he went to the Pozzetto restaurant where he ordered a pasta Bolognese and a red wine. after paying the bill he went to the bathroom where he reloaded his revolver and when he came out he started shooting.
His method was to corner the victims, shoot them point blank in the head and continue with the next person. He killed 20 people and 12 others were wounded. When the police arrived there was a shootout at a certain point. When Delgado was reloading he did not realize he was next to a window and an officer saw him, shot and killed him.
Victims edit
- Rita Elisa Morales de Delgado.
- Nora Isabel Becerra de Rincón.
- Claudia Marcela Rincón.
- Gloria Isabel Agudelo León.
- Gloria Inés Gordi Galat.
- Nelsy Patricia Cortés.
- Matilde Rocío González Rojas.
- Mercedes Gamboa González.
- María Claudia Bermúdez Durán.
- Diana Cuevas.
- Carlos Alfredo Cabal Cabal.
- Consuelo Pezantes Andrade.
- Antonio Maximiliano Pezantes.
- Hernando Ladino Benavides.
- Gracia Guzman Valenzuela.
- Giorgio Pindi Vanelli.
- Judith Glogower Lester.
- Zulemita Glogower Lester.
- Álvaro J. Montes.
- Jairo Enrique Gómez Remolina.
- Rita Julia Valenzuela de Guzmán.
- Andres Montaño Figueroa.
- Álvaro Pérez Buitrago.
- Sonia Adriana Alvarado.
- Guillermo Umaña Montoya.
- Margie Cubillos Garzón.
- Laureano Bautista Fajardo.
- Sandra Henao de López.
- unidentified victim.