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The community of Mata Gorda is dismayed following the most recent case of femicide that has claimed the life of a young mother, just days after celebrating her daughter's second birthday.
This is Roselin Fortunato, who was shot at her residence by Hansel Antonio Solís García, 38 years old, without saying much.
Carmen Lagares, a neighbor of the victim, expressed with pain: "A case like this had never been seen in the community. From Solís's behavior, it was something that could be seen coming. He was aggressive and very strong. Just last Sunday we were celebrating his daughter's 2nd birthday, and look how we are now mourning her."
The Profile of a Killer
At first glance, he was a neighborhood barber. His chair, his scissors, and the urban music in the background seemed part of the common landscape in the area. But behind the apron and the friendly conversation, a web of deceit, invasions, and weapons acquired with other people's money was hidden. Solís was known in his community as an informal worker who offered haircuts at a low cost. However, his true activity went much further: he led invasions of vacant lots in Villa Mella. Once illegally installed, he proceeded to register the lots in his name or that of others, and then sell them as if they were legitimate properties. According to sources close to the case, he had recently received 300,000 pesos from an acquaintance for the supposed purchase of a plot of land. But the money was never used to acquire the land. Instead, he allocated it, at least in part, to the purchase of a gun, which, as has been verified, he acquired the Monday after his daughter's second birthday, celebrated just one day before. According to information provided by neighbors, Solís was carrying a firearm illegally and fired four times at Fortunato, causing his death on the spot. During the attack, Juana Fortunato, Roselin's mother, was also injured, who tried to save her daughter's life, and later Hansel Solís took his own life with two shots to the head. This new fact raises to 29 the number of femicides registered so far this year in the Dominican Republic, a figure that reflects a worrying and persistent crisis of gender violence that continues to leave irreparable marks on dozens of Dominican families.
