Juan José Manuel Morales Herrera
Profesor — 24 years old.
Background
Juan José Manuel Morales Herrera
Profesor — 24 years old.
Case summary
Juan José Manuel Morales Herrera was a 24-year-old teacher with no political affiliation who was detained by Carabineros on September 26, 1973, in Estación Central. He was extrajudicially executed by state agents via gunshot wounds, and his body was found days later by his relatives at the Instituto Médico Legal.
Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos[1]
GONZALEZ NICOLAU, HERNAN SERGIO: 28 years old, single, employee, victim of political execution on September 26, 1973 in Santiago.
MARTINEZ LEYTON, GABRIEL RICARDO NELSON: 15 years old, single, primary school student, victim of political execution on September 26, 1973 in Santiago.
MORALES HERRERA, JUAN JOSE MANUEL: 24 years old, single, teacher, victim of political execution on September 26, 1973 in Santiago.
ROJAS GONZALEZ, SERGIO WENCESLAO: 18 years old, single, victim of political execution on September 26, 1973 in Santiago.
Hernán Sergio González Nicolau, Gabriel Ricardo Martínez Leyton, Juan José Manuel Morales Herrera, and Sergio Wenceslao Rojas Gonzalez died that day, at 08:00 hours, at the Parque Residencial Alameda in Santiago, due to thoracic-abdominal gunshot wounds, according to their respective Medical Death Certificates from the Legal Medical Institute.
However, according to statements from family members and witnesses, these four individuals were detained on September 26 at a residence in the Parque Residencial Alameda, in the Las Rejas sector, by Carabineros officers, who took them to an unknown location.
After several days of intense searching, their families found their bodies at the Legal Medical Institute.
Considering the background information gathered and the investigations carried out by this Corporation, the Superior Council reached the conviction that Hernán Sergio González Nicolau, Gabriel Ricardo Nelson Martínez Leyton, Juan José Manuel Morales Herrera, and Sergio Wenceslao Rojas González were detained and executed by State agents, outside of any legal process.
For this reason, it declared them victims of human rights violations.
References
- 1Museum of Memoryhttps://interactivos.museodelamemoria.cl/victims/?p=503