{"id":498887,"date":"2026-01-29T18:15:54","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T22:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/i-wanted-to-defend-her-young-man-tells-of-shooting-his-sister\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T18:18:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T22:18:27","slug":"i-wanted-to-defend-her-young-man-tells-of-shooting-his-sister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/dominican-news\/i-wanted-to-defend-her-young-man-tells-of-shooting-his-sister\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I wanted to defend her&#8221;: Young man tells of shooting his sister"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Santo Domingo.-<\/strong> <strong>Ankelsy Valerio de Jes\u00fas<\/strong>, 22 years old, surrendered this Thursday to the <strong>Regional Directorate of the National Police in La Vega<\/strong>, after being identified as the alleged perpetrator of the shooting death of her younger sister, <strong>Anelsy Ceballos de Jes\u00fas<\/strong>, 13 years old, in an incident that occurred on Wednesday night in the <strong>Ta\u00edna<\/strong> sector, in the municipality of <strong>San Francisco de Macor\u00eds<\/strong>, Duarte province.<\/p>\n\n\nDuring her statements to the authorities, the young woman expressed remorse and assured that she <strong>did not shoot her sister<\/strong>, but rather her brother-in-law, whom she accused of <strong>repeatedly mistreating the teenager<\/strong>.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI thought I was going to save my sister from a monster, and the monster ended up being me. But I never shot her, never; him yes,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>You may be interested in<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/Trasladan a San Francisco de Macor\u00eds a joven acusada de matar de un disparo a su hermana de 14 a\u00f1os\">http:\/\/Trasladan a San Francisco de Macor\u00eds a joven acusada de matar de un disparo a su hermana de 14 a\u00f1os<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Report of alleged mistreatment<\/h3>\n\n\nAccording to reports, she had previous conflicts with her brother-in-law due to alleged episodes of violence against the minor, a situation that, she affirmed, was also commented on by neighbors in the area. She explained that the night of the incident the discussion escalated and that, when trying to shoot the man, her sister <strong>intervened by placing herself as a &#8220;shield&#8221;<\/strong>, without her intending to harm her.\n\nValerio also indicated that the weapon used had been found some time ago in an abandoned house where they resided, and reiterated that <strong>he never intended to shoot the teenager<\/strong>.\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ongoing Research<\/h3>\n\n\nThe minor died from <strong>multiple gunshot wounds<\/strong>, while <strong>Enmanuel N\u00fa\u00f1ez Batista<\/strong>, 20, was seriously injured in the same incident and remains admitted to a health center under medical care, according to the National Police.\n\nAt the scene, authorities collected <strong>several 9-millimeter shell casings<\/strong>, as well as <strong>three bladed weapons<\/strong>, as part of the investigative process.\n\nThe young woman remains in police custody while the <strong>Public Ministry<\/strong> continues investigations to clarify the exact circumstances of the event and determine criminal responsibilities.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santo Domingo.- Ankelsy Valerio de Jes\u00fas, 22 years old, surrendered this Thursday to the Regional Directorate of the National Police in La Vega, after being identified as the alleged perpetrator of the shooting death of her younger sister, Anelsy Ceballos de Jes\u00fas, 13 years old, in an incident that occurred on Wednesday night 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":[43188,40337,16180],"class_list":["post-498887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-dominican-news","tag-ankelsy-valerio","tag-death","tag-san-francisco-de-macoris"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-25Mz","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\/498887","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=498887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}