Pozzetto Massacre

In the Pozzetto Massacre in Bogotá, Colombia on the evening of December 4, 1986, the English teacher and Vietnam War veteran Campo Elias Delgado killed 29 people, 20 of them in the luxurious Pozzetto Restaurant, 6 in his building and 2 in the 118th street .^{[citation needed]}

The way Delgado killed people recalls the "American style of massacres", an atypical kind of murder in Colombia in those days^{[citation needed]}, but relatively common in the United States.

Massacre

On the morning of the 4th of December 1986, Delgado started the massacre by killing his English student and her mother.^{[citation needed]} Subsequently, Delgado followed up in his apartment, where he killed his mother and caused a fire^{[citation needed]}, then killed several of her neighbours,^{[citation needed]} and went to the restaurant where he ordered an expensive dinner and killed all the guests.^{[citation needed]} There is some dispute regarding Delgado's death, as some believe he was killed by a policeman, and others that it was a suicide.^{[citation needed]}

Popular culture

The Pozzetto Massacre inspired Mario Mendoza Zambrano's novel 'Satanás' and the film based on the novel, Satanás by Andrés Baiz.^{[citation needed]}. Mendoza was classmate of Delgado (They studied literature) and spoke with him the same day of the massacre.

Ballistics

Delgado used a Colombian manufactured Llama .38 special revolver, discussion arose because some of the bodies inside the restaurant were found to have 9mm cal. rounds used by the Colombian police's HK MP5A3-s and Uzi-s probably due to poorly conducted swat operation, again probably due to the lack of experience or training of the Colombian police in that sort of situation.