Campo Elías Delgado

Campo Elías Delgado
Passport photo of Campo Elias Delgado
Born	Campo Elías Delgado Morales 14 May 1934 Chinácota, Colombia
Died	4 December 1986 (aged 52) Bogotá, Colombia
Cause of death	Suicide
Occupation	English teacher
Killings
Date	4 December 1986 2:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.
Location(s)	Bogotá, Colombia
Killed	29
Injured	12
Weapons	Hunting knife Llama Revolver (.38-caliber)

Campo Elías Delgado (14 May 1934 – 4 December 1986) was a Colombian Vietnam War veteran who killed 29 people, and wounded 12 more, most of them at a luxurious Bogotá restaurant called Pozzetto, before apparently being shot dead by police. Since he only had a revolver and a knife and many of the dead were killed by an Uzi, it is alleged that the police were responsible for some of the deaths.

Delgado, born on 14 May 1934, in Chinácota, Colombia, was the son of Rita Elisa Morales. He had a sister who resented him. In 1941 he saw his father commit suicide and held his mother responsible for this incident his entire life. He was said to have been an excellent student and studied medicine.

In 1970 he reportedly served in the U.S. military in the Vietnam War, even though he was a decade too old to be drafted. Friends reported that his experience in Vietnam had made him antisocial and bitter. A refugee in the streets of New York, he returned to Bogotá after a fight with a thief. Delgado then lived by teaching private English lessons and was taking graduate studies at the Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá. He was no longer able to develop friendships, for which he blamed his mother. As the years went by, he grew more and more resentful of her.

On 3 December 1986, around noon, Delgado entered the Banco de Bogotá to close his bank account and withdraw his entire deposits of $49,896.93. When the cashier handed him a round number of $49,896.50, Delgado insisted on receiving the remaining 43 cents. Either during the afternoon of the same day, or the next morning, Delgado bought a Llama .38-caliber revolver and 500 rounds of ammunition.

On 4 December at approximately 2:00 p.m., Delgado went to an apartment building at Calle 118 No. 40-11 and entered apartment 304, where Nora Becerra de Rincón lived together with her 14-year-old daughter Claudia Rincón, whom Delgado had given lessons in English, as well as her 11-year-old son Julio Eduardo, her mother, and a friend of the latter. Besides Nora Becerra and her daughter, nobody was at home at that time. Delgado gagged and handcuffed Nora Becerra and fatally stabbed her four times with a hunting knife on the couch in the living room. He also gagged Claudia Rincón, and bound her hands and feet, before stabbing her 22 times and leaving her dead on a bed. The bodies were found the next day by Julio Eduardo.