{"id":497998,"date":"2026-01-18T19:02:42","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T23:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/dicrim-deepens-investigation-into-murder-of-couple-in-constanza\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T19:02:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T23:02:42","slug":"dicrim-deepens-investigation-into-murder-of-couple-in-constanza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/dominican-news\/dicrim-deepens-investigation-into-murder-of-couple-in-constanza\/","title":{"rendered":"DICRIM deepens investigation into murder of couple in Constanza"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Santo Domingo.- The National Police<\/strong>, through the Investigation Division <strong>(DICRIM)<\/strong> of Constanza, in coordination with the Public Ministry, is investigating the death of a couple who were shot by unknown individuals early in the morning of this Sunday, January 18, in the municipal district of Tireo, Constanza, province <strong>La Vega.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\nThe event occurred in the marquee of a residence located on <strong>Jos\u00e9 A. Dur\u00e1n<\/strong> street, where Luis Manuel Batista Zapata, 55, and his girlfriend Mar\u00eda Magdalena P\u00e1ez Jerez, 35, were found dead, both with multiple gunshot wounds, according to the authorities&#8217; investigation.\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>You may be interested in:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/Desconocidos matan pareja de esposos en Constanza y huyen en veh\u00edculo de v\u00edctimas\">http:\/\/Desconocidos matan pareja de esposos en Constanza y huyen en veh\u00edculo de v\u00edctimas<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nAccording to the preliminary report, people under investigation intercepted the victims.\n\nThe preliminary report indicates that the attackers fled the scene aboard the vehicle in which the victims were traveling: Toyota Hilux 4&#215;4, white, year 2023, license plate L473239. Said vehicle has already been recovered as part of the investigative process.\n\nOn the scene, technicians from the Scientific Police collected evidence as part of the investigative process.\n\nAuthorities reported that the case is under investigation, and that as the investigations progress, further details will be offered.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santo Domingo.- The National Police, through the Investigation Division (DICRIM) of Constanza, in coordination with the Public Ministry, is investigating the death of a couple who were shot by unknown individuals early in the morning of this Sunday, January 18, in the municipal district of Tireo, Constanza, province La Vega. The event occurred in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[40216],"tags":[14719,40357],"class_list":["post-497998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-dominican-news","tag-dicrim","tag-national-police"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-25ye","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"Redacci\u00f3n De \u00daltimo Minuto","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-logo-de-ultimo-minuto-96x96.png","categories_name":["Dominican News"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}