On the afternoon of Saturday, January 17, 2026, Adrián Mathias Pinzón Calvo He left the place where he lived, in Lucero Bajo neighborhood, in the town of Ciudad Bolívar, in the south of Bogotá. He went with his father, Marco Antonio Pinzónwho had asked permission to take him to the El Ensueño shopping center and share a moment with him. But the boy never returned.
According to the information known to the Bogotá section of EL TIEMPO from official reports of the case, Adrián was under the care of his aunt, because his mother resides in the United States and his father was confined in a mental health clinic in the capital.
After losing contact with the minor, the family began searching for him without success. Shortly after, The father began sending messages to the child’s mother, in which he attached images of a firearm and made statements that the authorities described as a serious threat against the life and integrity of the minor. Among these contacts, the man also made a video call to the child’s mother in which he threatened to kill him.
The situation raised the alert level of the case and led the authorities to prioritize its search. In the official notices it was reported that Adrián Mathias was approximately 1.50 meters tall, had a thick build, a dark complexion, with dark brown eyes and straight black hair. The published photograph had been taken about a month before. On the day of his disappearance, he was wearing a burgundy-colored sweatshirt, a black T-shirt, black jeans, and white sneakers with blue lines.
At that moment and in the midst of anguish, the family asked for citizen support to obtain any information that would allow him to be located.
In an interview with EL TIEMPO, Daniela, the minor’s aunt, said that she had had the child in her care since December and that it was she who filed the formal complaint with the authorities.
“The child’s father returned from the United States in November of last year with very delicate psychiatric conditions,” he said. As a result of this situation, he explained, the man had to be admitted to a mental health clinic and, since then, the maternal family assumed care of the minor. “After that, due to his condition, the child remained in our care and since December I was always aware of him, accompanying him and protecting him,” he said.
According to his testimony, despite his state of health and the breakup with the child’s mother, the man insisted on resuming contact with his son. “He told us that he wanted to share with him, make up for lost time, because he felt that the child had already forgotten about him,” he said.
That Saturday, January 17, they spent several hours in a park. In the middle of the meeting, the father took the minor’s cell phone and turned it off. “At night it was when we stopped having any type of contact with them,” said Daniela. Shortly after, the boy’s phone appeared blocked and it was impossible to communicate again.
Then the threatening messages began directed at the mother. “He told her that he was going to take the child’s life so that she would suffer a lot,” said the aunt. Five days later, on Thursday, January 22, the outcome was confirmed.
That day, the boy and his father were found dead in the Los Laches neighborhoodin a wooded area located in the upper part of the sector, near the church in the Egypt neighborhood, in the central-eastern part of Bogotá.
According to the information known by this medium, Adrián Mathias had been shot in the head. His father, after murdering him, shot himself in the chest and died at the same place. The incident was reported by the community, who with partial information reported a couple dead at the scene.
Some time later, the place was cordoned off by the authorities to facilitate the entry of investigators from the Technical Investigation Corps (CTI) of the Prosecutor’s Office and the Judicial Police, who took over the urgent actions. The officials carried out the technical inspection, documented the scene and carried out the removal of the bodies, amidst the silence of the neighbors and the pain of the relatives, while the investigations began to establish precisely how the events occurred.
CAROL MALAVER
DEPUTY EDITOR BOGOTÁ
Scribes to carmal@eltiempo.com
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