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By Wendy Anders
Late Friday morning, police on motorcycles in rural southern Costa Rica responding to a 9-1-1 call arrived at the scene of a gruesome domestic violence shooting.
In the small verdant indigenous village of Alto Conte, Progreso, some 53 kilometers from Golfito in Costa Rica’s Panama border area, Giancarlo Martín Abarca, a Costa Rican man, arrived at his 18-year-old lover’s parent’s house at around 11:00 a.m. carrying a loaded 9mm pistol, said Michael Soto, judicial police spokesman.
Yamileth Rodriguez Villanueva had been living together with Giancarlo Martín in the nearby village of Laurel for the past few months; her parents were opposed to her relationship with the man for reasons that are not yet fully known.
So, last week, Yamileth returned to her family’s rustic house 1 km from the local public school in Alto Conte, said police.
According to neighbors, Yamileth’s parents were encouraging her to file a domestic violence complaint.
Somehow, Giancarlo Martín got wind of those plans.
Yamileth Rodriguez’s mother, Ana Vita Villanueva Morales, 41, and her father, Jesús Manuel Rodriguez Lara, 42, were at home with Yamileth and her sister of 12 when Giancarlo Martín arrived Friday morning.
Apparently, Martín started arguing with the family outside the home, and at some point took out a pistol (which has a capacity of 10-13 rounds), and fired first at Yamileth’s mother. He hit her in her chest twice, and she died at the scene of the crime, said Soto in a televised press conference.
Yamileth’s father was also shot in the chest region, and was transfered to the San Juan de Dios Hospital in San José, the country’s capital, where he was listed in critical condition.
Martín also fired at Yamileth, his lover, who received two bullet wounds in her lower chest, and died the next day at 2:00 a.m. at the same hospital her father was brought to in San José.
Yamileth’s 12-year old sister was treated at a local clinic for superficial bullet wounds in the upper part of her leg that police say may have been caused by stray bullets.
Police are awaiting an interview with the young girl to try to understand more details of the tragic shooting, which they are calling a femicide.
When the police arrived, and saw the bloody scene, they tried approaching and talking to Giancarlo Martín, who still had the pistol in his hand. Martín fired the pistol at the left side of his chest, and also died at the scene, detailed Soto.
