On Friday, December 12, 2025, the family of three-year-old Shelsy Michel Navarro Ojeda stood guard over her body in the modest house where she lived in the district of Migueo, Dibulla (La Guajira). On this very day he would graduate from high school.
Navarro Ojeda appeared to be dead in a sack on the night of Wednesday, December 10th, in a building, a few meters from his house.
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The community, which had been supporting the search for the minor since the afternoon hours of the day, stepped in shock When he learned that a minor had allegedly committed the gruesome femicide.
What happened next could be nothing short of terrible. Apparently they were people influenced by the Conquering Self-Defense Forces of the Sierra Nevada (Acsn). They kidnapped the alleged suspect, tied his hands and feet and tortured him to death. His remains, head, ears, genitals and torso, lay scattered on the property of a farm in the community, with a previously unknown message.
According to posts on the social network Facebook by alias Naín, the leader of the Acsn and negotiator in a failed peace process with the illegal armed group, would have had a direct impact on the fate of the crime’s main suspect.
After learning of the minor’s death, alias Naín shared a photo of the young man who would later be lynched with the message “He must pay” and emojis of skulls and anger. He later showed pictures of the moment the community held the young man and declared: “The pig is now in the hands of the people.”
He later released videos showing a group of men beating and pointing out the suspect: “Thanks to the quick reaction of my dogs, my children, they already know what to do with this pig (sic).”
Colonel Salomón Bello Reyes, commander of the Guajira Police Department, explained that the videos of the arrest, kidnapping, torture and murder of the minor are among the essential elements of evidence in the ongoing investigation, without publicly confirming or denying the version of events.
For his part, Lerber Dimas, director of the Platform of People, Environment and Leadership Defenders of the Sierra Nevada, referred on social networks to the double crime that shocked the region.
“What happened to the girl in Mingueo is irretrievably serious and painful. What happened later to the alleged murderer is perverse,” he wrote in his “It’s savagery at its finest.”
Regarding the murdered young man, unofficially identified as Gabriel Enrique Fernández Bermúdez, 16 years old, originally from Venezuela, the versions offer contradictory data.
According to local media, some neighbors said that the young man came to the city and asked for a place to stay He then lived in a house whose owners were absent; The bag containing the girl’s body is said to have been found in the same place.
Gabriel was seen assisting in the search for the minor but disappeared when the remains were discovered. An alleged witness stated that the young man entered and left the above-mentioned house several times on Wednesday afternoon until the minor’s parents raised the alarm about her disappearance.
Other versions suggest that Gabriel arrived in the role of a shepherd, while others claim that he worked clearing a field. After Gabriel was arrested by the community and identified as the perpetrator of the crime, he accused a friend of allegedly identified as Breinner, who had escaped. The authorities have still not clarified the veracity of these statements and the identities of those allegedly involved.
The lack of accurate information about Gabriel and the possibility that an error was made in identifying the perpetrator leaves open the question of who the real perpetrator of the crime against the minor could be. In fact, the reward of $50 million remains for the perpetrator of the femicide of the three-year-old daughter.
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