Former soldier detained in Chipaque with bodies of wife and daughter in vehicle
The Cundinamarca Prosecutor's Office is investigating Donis David Fonseca, 44, who was found with the bodies of Keila Fernández and her daughter Luciana on a road to Villavicencio.
Former soldier captured with two bodies on Bogotá-Villavicencio road
A vehicle stopped in the early hours of the morning on the highway connecting Bogotá with Villavicencio, at the height of the municipality of Chipaque, alerted officials from the concessionaire company that manages the road. They contacted the police, whose officers upon inspecting the car found the lifeless bodies of a woman and a ten-year-old girl. The driver, identified as Donis David Fonseca, a former professional soldier aged 44 from the department of Cesar, was immediately detained as the suspected perpetrator.
According to reports from elpais.com, the victims are Keila Fernández Ortiz and her daughter Luciana Fernández, both born in La Guajira, in the north of the country. The authorities are evaluating the possibility that Luciana was the suspect's stepdaughter rather than biological daughter.
Route of the suspect and crime scene
The governor of Cundinamarca, Jorge Emilio Rey, detailed the case through a video statement released this Thursday. "Initial reports indicate that these homicides occurred on 7 September, in the locality of Usme, in Bogotá," said Rey. Following the events, Fonseca first travelled to La Dorada, in the department of Caldas, to the west of the capital, before turning eastward to take the road to the Llano, where he was finally intercepted.
Investigators are also inspecting the residence in Bogotá where the crime is believed to have taken place. Rey expressed his position unambiguously: "We hope for exemplary measures for this criminal, this murderer."
Status of judicial proceedings
The Cundinamarca Prosecutor's Office obtained the legalisation of Fonseca's arrest before a judge. This will be followed by the filing of charges and the determination of a detention measure. Fonseca, who in addition to his military background worked as a security guard, remains in custody as the investigation continues.
Context: femicides in Bogotá
If the Prosecutor's Office hypothesis is confirmed, this would be the first femicide recorded in 2026 in the locality of Usme. In the first half of the year, the Women's Secretariat recorded 11 femicides in Bogotá, two fewer than in the same period of 2025, in localities such as Bosa, Ciudad Bolívar, Usaquén, San Cristóbal and Chapinero. The entity warns that the slight decrease should not be translated into a reduction of prevention efforts.
Figures from Forensic Medicine corresponding to the same period indicate that 1,869 women were assessed as at risk of femicide in the city; of these, 809 were classified as at extreme risk.
A study by the Observatory of Women and Gender Equality (OMEG) of the Women's Secretariat establishes that 72% of femicides in Bogotá are committed by the victim's partner or ex-partner. The research "Lives that matter, data that tell: understanding femicide in the capital of the country," produced in collaboration with Javeriana University and the University of Antioquia and published in December 2025, also points out that 49% of cases were preceded by multiple forms of previous violence; 13% were perpetrated by relatives—4% of these against girls aged between one and eleven years. All the perpetrators were men: 26% had a record of gender-based violence and 24% carried or had access to firearms before the crime.
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