Juan de Jesús Lozano VELÁSQUEZ

Classification: Mass murderer
Characteristics: After a girl refused to dance with him
Number of victims: 11
Date of murders: June 24, 2000
Date of arrest: October 19, 2000 (in Madrid, Spain)
Date of birth: 1974
Victims profile: Carlos Arturo Aristizábal, 34, owner of the bar / Ricardo Javier Ariza Gil, 28 / Rafael María Avila Barrios, 53 / Julián Andrés Barbosa González, 22 / Juan Carlos Bedoya, 27 / Nelson Orlando Castro, 22 / Néstor Alberto Granada, 28 / Marta Liliana Londoño Castro, 32 / Consuelo Patricia Menjura, 41 / Javier Darío Moreno Millán, 35 / John Jairo Ospina, 24
Method of murder: Shooting (Uzi)
Location: Bogotá, Colombia
Status: Sentenced to 40 years in prison in February 2005

The Reminiscencias dance club shooting was a mass murder that occurred in Bogotá, Colombia on June 24, 2000, when Juan de Jesús Lozano Velásquez fired with an Uzi at revelers at the Reminiscencias dance club, after a girl refused to dance with him.

Velásquez killed eleven people, wounded seven others, and then escaped, but was eventually arrested and sentenced to 40 years in prison.

Victims

Carlos Arturo Aristizábal, 34, owner of the bar
Ricardo Javier Ariza Gil, 28
Rafael María Avila Barrios, 53
Julián Andrés Barbosa González, 22
Juan Carlos Bedoya, 27
Nelson Orlando Castro, 22
Néstor Alberto Granada, 28
Marta Liliana Londoño Castro, 32
Consuelo Patricia Menjura, 41
Javier Darío Moreno Millán, 35
John Jairo Ospina, 24, nephew of Carlos Aristizábal

Those wounded were: Rodrigo Aristizábal, 39, Jhon Jairo Bedoya, 34, Camilo José Moreno, 22, Kelly Fernanda Ospina Orozco, 20, Oscar Iván Ospina, 19, Arley Pinzón, 29, Fabián Alberto Granada, 36.

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