Late into the night, mothers chanted for justice outside their children’s school in Lima after a teacher was gunned down in front of his students in the latest and most shocking example of a surge in gang violence in Peru.
CCTV footage of the incident on Monday showed panicked children running inside the school as the body of Julio César Pacheco lay slumped inside the blue metal gates of Julio C Tello in the working-class Ate Vitarte neighborhood in the capital’s east. He had been shot dead by an assassin pretending to deliver a legal notice.
