Reminiscencias dance club shooting

The Reminiscencias dance club shooting was a mass murder that occurred in Bogotá, Colombia on June 24, 2000, when Juan de Jesús Lozano Velásquez, accompanied by his friends Henry Orozco Casas and Julián Andrés Barbosa, fired an Uzi machine gun at revelers at the Reminiscencias dance club, after a friend of his asked them for help in case of a possible fight. Velásquez killed eleven people, including Barbosa (by accident), wounded seven others, and then escaped with Orozco Casas, but was eventually arrested and sentenced to 40 years in prison.[1][2]

Reminiscencias dance club shooting
LocationBogotá, Colombia
DateJune 24, 2000
11:45 p.m.
Attack type
Mass murder
WeaponsUzi
Deaths11 (including one of the perpetrators)
Injured7
PerpetratorsJuan de Jesús Lozano Velásquez
Henry Orozco Casas
Julián Andrés Barbosa González

Victims
  • Carlos Arturo Aristizábal, 34, owner of the bar
  • Ricardo Javier Ariza Gil, 28
  • Rafael María Avila Barrios, 53
  • Julián Andrés Barbosa González, 22 (one of the gunman)
  • Juan Carlos Bedoya, 27
  • Nelson Orlando Castro, 22
  • Néstor Alberto Granada, 28
  • Marta Liliana Londoño Castro, 32
  • Consuelo Patricia Menjura, 41
  • Javier Darío Moreno Millán, 35
  • John Jairo Ospina, 24, nephew of Carlos Aristizábal

Those wounded were: Rodrigo Aristizábal, 39, Jhon Jairo Bedoya, 34, Camilo José Moreno, 22, Kelly Fernanda Ospina Orozco, 20, Oscar Iván Ospina, 19, Arley Pinzón, 29, Fabián Alberto Granada, 36.[3]

See also

References
  1. Eleven killed in Bogota disco, BBC (June 24, 2000)
  2. La verdad de Reminiscencias, El Tiempo (July 30, 2000)
  3. Las víctimas de la taberna del San Jorge, El Tiempo (June 25, 2000)
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