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True crime cases in Lima

7case filesUpdated Jul 13, 2026

Casepin holds 7 case files in Lima. By legal status, 1 marked unsolved, 1 marked cold and 5 marked solved.

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    Santa Beatriz Hippodrome (now Campo de Marte), Santa Beatriz, Lima, Peru · 1933

    Assassination of Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro

    On April 30, 1933, Peruvian President Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro was fatally shot from behind while riding in his open-topped car at the Santa Beatriz Hippodrome in Lima. The gunman, APRA militant Abelardo Mendoza Leyva, was killed at the scene by presidential guards; a Republican Guard member was also killed in the attack.

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    Japanese Ambassador's Residence, San Isidro District · 1996

    Japanese Embassy Hostage Crisis

    On 17 December 1996, 14 Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) militants seized the Japanese ambassador's residence in Lima, Peru, taking hundreds hostage; the 126-day siege ended on 22 April 1997 with a military raid that killed all 14 militants, one hostage, and two commandos, followed by years of investigations into alleged extrajudicial killings of surrendered rebels.

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    Tarata Street, Miraflores, Lima, Peru · 1992

    Tarata bombing

    On July 16, 1992, Shining Path detonated a 400-kilogram car bomb on Tarata Street in Miraflores, Lima, killing 25 people and injuring over 150, in one of the deadliest attacks of Peru's internal conflict.

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    Royal Plaza shopping center, Independencia/San Martín de Porres border, Lima, Peru · 2017

    2017 Lima shooting

    A mass shooting beginning on February 17, 2017 at the Royal Plaza shopping center in northern Lima, Peru, killed six people during the attack, including the perpetrator, and injured nine others; a wounded municipal inspector later died of his injuries, raising the death toll to seven.

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    San Isidro, Lima, Peru · 2009

    Murder of Marco Antonio

    Peruvian stylist and television host Marco Antonio Gallego Gonzáles was tortured and killed during a robbery at his San Isidro apartment in July 2009; three people were later convicted.

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    El Polo Shopping Centre, near the U.S. Embassy, Lima, Peru · 2002

    2002 Lima Bombing

    A car bomb exploded outside a shopping centre near the U.S. embassy in Lima, Peru, three days before President George W. Bush's visit, killing nine people and injuring thirty-two.

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Case files in Lima

The files run from 1933 to 2017. The 1990s hold the most, with 3 files. The oldest is Assassination of Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro, from 1933.

By type, the largest groups are murder and homicide cases (4), robbery and burglary cases (2) and kidnapping and abduction cases (1).

None of these files has creator coverage attached yet; each one can still be heard as a narrated case file.

Every file is written from cited sources and pinned where it happened, and every person named carries the legal status the record gives them. If you hold information about an unsolved case, contact the investigating agency named in its file rather than posting it publicly. Families and anyone involved can request a correction from any file.

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How many case files in Lima are on Casepin?

7. By status: 1 unsolved, 1 cold and 5 solved. The count covers published files only and changes as new files clear review.

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Assassination of Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro, from 1933. Open the file

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