A Cuban who was temporarily employed at Damian Valdez-Galloso's house to do some work saw him on the morning he shot El Taiger and may have been one of the last people to have contact with Damian before he fled.
“I last saw him around 10 something or 11. He opened the door and left,” said the man, who was not identified by name, in a statement to Univision.
A curious piece of information provided by the interviewee is that Damian refused to let him work in the bathroom of his room.
"He told me that I couldn't 'use' the bathroom in his room because he had a lot of money... 'Not because I have a lot of money there,' he says I told him."
To which the employee would have responded, “Well, brother, put it in the bank, or if you don’t want to, ‘I won’t do the cleaning for you.’”
When asked about Damian's character, the former employee described him as someone who was grumpy in the mornings but became more relaxed as the day went on.
"It was a pitbull in the morning, it relaxed somewhat around noon, and in the afternoon and at night it was happy," he replied.
Finally, in response to the question everyone seems to be asking these days—whether Damian really had the strength to move the hefty body of El Taiger, something the police do not doubt—the interviewee answered:
"There's a gym back there... but I don't know, because he sometimes told me that his arm was messed up."
Univision journalists Javier Díaz and Mario Vallejo reported that "the victim's friends do not believe that Damian had the strength to lift El Taiger into the vehicle alone."
"I can't confirm whether he moved the body by himself, but in due time, everything will be revealed," one of them, who preferred to remain anonymous, reportedly replied.
The arrest report of Damian
The Miami-Dade Police released the arrest report for Damian Valdez-Galloso, the sole suspect in the murder of Cuban reggaeton artist José Manuel Carbajal Zaldívar (El Taiger).
The document -although brief and with some gaps- specifies that El Taiger arrived at Damian's house at approximately 5:24 a.m. on October 3rd. The report does not detail the singer's demeanor upon arriving at the residence of the now-accused, nor the nature of the exchange between them before the shot was fired.
The statement only reveals that from inside the house, Damian shot the victim in the forehead. Immediately after, the accused exited through a back door of the residence, dragged El Taiger by the ankles to a Mercedes Benz SUV, loaded him into it, and left him there.
He then cleaned the crime scene and, after ensuring he had erased the main traces, changed his clothes and headed towards the area near the trauma center of Jackson Memorial Hospital around 6:00 a.m.
The police received an emergency call made by Damian, and authorities arrived at around 6:45 a.m. Once on the scene, the police found El Taiger's body bleeding from the head near the intersection of Northwest 9th Avenue and 17th Street in Miami.
The reggaeton artist was transferred to Jackson Memorial Hospital, where he remained in critical condition for a week before passing away on October 10, sparking a wave of shock and mourning among his fans.
This Wednesday, Damian arrived in Miami extradited from New York, and on Thursday, he made his first appearance in the Miami-Dade criminal court before Judge Mindy S. Glazer, who denied him bail.
Valdez-Galloso faces three charges: second-degree murder, tampering with evidence, and possession of a firearm.
Damian, 49 years old and known as "El Narra," was due to appear in court on November 8 for the accusation of sexual abuse against him and for violating registration requirements with the authorities related to that offense.
However, he did not appear, as announced by Teresa Padrón, manager of El Taiger, who has expressed her outrage at Damian's demeanor in court this Thursday, where he was seen with a cold demeanor that showed no sign of remorse whatsoever.
According to Teresa, the next court date for Damián Valdez-Galloso will be November 22, when he must appear before the judge overseeing the murder case.
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