The current president of the Municipal Council of San Miguelito, César Caballero, was murdered on the morning of this Tuesday, November 7, 2023. Caballero was serving as a representative of the Belisario Porras district for the ruling Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD) .

The event occurred in the Jardines de Sevilla residential complex, in Las Cumbres at 9:50 am this Tuesday. The subjects who murdered him were traveling in a gray Hyundai Accent car.

According to police reports, the township representative got into a white van; The criminals arrived there and shot him at least 10 times.

Caballero's body was transferred to the Generoso Guardia polyclinic, located in the Omar Torrijos district, San Miguelito.

The Deputy Commissioner of the National Police Eduardo Arosemena reported that the security cameras in the area will play an important role in the investigation of the case.

“The main objective was the representative,” said the senior homicide and femicide prosecutor, Rafael Baloyes, who will be in charge of the investigations, when he arrived at the scene of the incident.

“When it comes to a hitman, there are other participants and other vehicles that are involved” and that is why the scope of the investigation will be expanded, stated the prosecutor.

This will be from the airport transfer (he came from Colombia), in addition to the transportation routes to his home, said Baloyes, who added that Caballero was accompanied by a driver, who was unharmed.

The prosecutor also said that this is a complex investigation.

Caballero was recently in the news because the PRD nominated him to run for re-election in the 2024 elections as representative of Belisario Porras, from the San Miguelito district.

He was sentenced to five years in prison for embezzlement to the detriment of the University of Panama (UP). The information is contained in Edict 9 of January 5, 2022, issued by the Superior Court for Settlement of Criminal Cases of the First Judicial District, after his defense processed an appeal.

The communal board of Belisario Porras, an area where 44,129 people live, according to data from the 2023 census, received $6.6 million from parallel decentralization between July 2021 and May 2023. While in that sector $55.3 has been distributed million in Digital Voucher.