On September 23, they were detained along with about twenty other workers at the SUMAR textile company, an industry belonging to the so-called "Cordón Vicuña Mackenna":

Ofelia Rebeca VILLARROEL LATIN, 29 years old, secretary in the Foreign Trade section, in charge of the Women's Department of the Employees' Union, a communist militant;

Donato QUISPE CHOQUE, a laborer of Bolivian nationality; and

Adrián del Carmen SEPULVEDA FARIAS, 27 years old, a laborer in the Spinning section, staff delegate, a leftist sympathizer.

This industry had been raided previously on September 12 by Ejército personnel, who took control of the company. On September 23, the majority of the workers reported to their workplace, obeying a summons from the new authorities.

As the workers arrived at the company, they were lined up and those considered the most dangerous were separated according to lists that the military personnel consulted.

Multiple and consistent testimonies from laborers and employees who were inside the company indicate that the victims were detained there by Ejército officials and then separated from the other workers who had also been detained, this being the last time they were seen alive.

The bodies of those affected were found on a public road, on the General San Martín highway, from where they were sent to the Legal Medical Institute. The corresponding autopsies revealed that the date of death was the same day as the detention.

The bodies presented multiple gunshot wounds, and all were blindfolded, a sign of having been executed.

The evidence gathered, especially the testimonies that reliably attest to the detention and the procedure thereof, plus the circumstances of the date of death and the cause thereof, lead this Commission to the conviction that Ofelia Rebeca Villarroel Latín, Donato Quispe Choque, and Adrián del Carmen Sepúlveda Farías were executed and were victims of serious human rights violations as a result of the actions of State agents.