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Edwin VALERO
Male
"El aniquilador" "El Inca" Lightweight, Venezuela, El Vigía Born: December 3, 1981, Bolero Alto, Edo.Mérida Died: April 19, 2010, Valencia, Venezuela Height: 5ft 7 1/2in, mt 1,70 "southpaw"
Valero, according to Police, hanged himself in his jail cell after being arrested for stabbing his wife to death. He used the sweat pants he was wearing to hang himself from a bar in the cell. Valero was found hanging in his cell early Monday by another inmate, who alerted authorities in the police lockup in north-central Carabobo state, Federal Police Chief Wilmer Flores told reporters. He said Valero showed signs of life when they took him down, but they were unable to save him and he died about 2 a.m. on April 19, 2010. Valero had problems with alcohol and cocaine addiction and struggled with depression. He had previously been suspected of assaulting his wife and was charged in March 2010 with harassing her and threatening personnel at a hospital where she was treated for injuries. Valero’s 24-year-old wife, Jennifer Carolina Viera, was found dead in a hotel room half way across the country on April 17, 2010, and police said the fighter emerged from their room telling hotel security he had killed her. Valero was a household name in Venezuela and had a huge image of Venezuela’s president tattooed on his chest along with the country’s yellow, blue and red flag.
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