Paúl René Moreno Camacho ( 1992–18 May 2017) was a

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student and volunteer killed during the

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Killing

Paúl Moreno was a fifth-year medical student at the

University of Zulia The University of Zulia ( es, La Universidad del Zulia, also known as LUZ literally meaning "light" in Spanish), is a public university whose main campus is located in the city of Maracaibo, Venezuela. LUZ is one of the largest and most important ...

and was a volunteer paramedic for the . On 18 May 2017, Paúl was nearby the Fuerzas Armadas Avenue in

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, when the driver of a vehicle rammed over a barricade, running over him and escaping from the scene. Moreno was transferred to the Adolfo Pons Hospital, where he died at the age of 24. The killing of Paúl Moreno was documented in a report by a panel of independent experts from the

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, considering that it could constitute a

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committed in Venezuela along with other killings during the protests.

Investigations

On 17 November 2017, Omar Barrios, held responsible for Paúl's death, was sentenced to 19 months of house arrest, after which he would have a presentation regime every 15 days. The sentence signed by the judge in charge of the case, Yesiré Rincón, incorrectly established that Moreno died in 2009 and not in 2017, and judge Rincón argued that the qualification of intentional homicide could not be applied because the criterion was approved in 2011. The irregularity of the sentence was denounced in a statement by Carlos Moreno, Paúl's brother.

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Killing

Investigations

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