Overview
- Prosecutor Eduardo Yáñez said the victim died from a knife wound to the neck and that the attacker consumed body parts, including an eye, ears, hands and part of the neck.
- Prison staff discovered the killing during the morning desencierro routine in module 91, where the two inmates shared a cell.
- The alleged perpetrator was identified as 21-year-old Manuel Ignacio Fuentes Martínez and the victim as 26-year-old Felipe Sepúlveda Ramos.
- Fuentes is isolated in a maximum-security unit as the case proceeds in ordinary justice, and the victim’s remains were sent to the Servicio Médico Legal for autopsy.
- Reports indicate transfer orders issued days earlier for Fuentes to Rancagua and for Sepúlveda to Antofagasta were not executed, and Gendarmería opened an internal administrative inquiry.