A notorious gang leader plunged to his death as he fell off a balcony while attempting to run from armed police who were raiding his flat in Antioquia, Colombia
Shocking new footage shows the moment a notorious gang leader plunges to his death while trying to escape police.
While on the run from armed officers, the Tren de Aragua gang leader fell as he tried to slip through a balcony mid-police chase.
Ender Alexis Rojas Montan, 31, was believed to be a leader of the famed gang’s Alayon Dynasty branch before he met the grisly end. The gang leader plummeted an entire eight floors of the apartment block and seemingly died on impact, as video footage shows.
On October 9, Rojas Montan was attempting to make a quick escape from the property in Antioquia, as Colombian National Police officials burst through his front door.
According to body cam footage, they had busted down his door with a battering ram, and as they made their way through, he sneakily slipped through the railing.
Instead of making a safe escape, he lost his grip and appeared to completely nosedive all the way down to the concrete lying below. The footage shows an officer who peered over the railing and, in turn, captured a clear view of Montan’s dead body lying on the pavement.
There were a minimum of five armed officers that burst into the residence with their guns drawn as they called for the suspect to ‘get down’.
Footage shows one man, sat shirtless on the sofa, getting down onto his knees with his hands in the air, as a small dog cried in the corner. One other person was discovered in another room, attempting to hide from the police beneath a blanket.
A number of contraband items were found hidden within the apartment, including a piece of a grenade and a whole pound of amphetamine, which is reported to be worth $9,550 (£7,110).
Arrested at the scene were three other people thought to be members of the same criminal organisation – Luis Alberto Cabeza Calderon, Yonathan Samuel Urbina Rodriguez, and Daviannys del Jesus Moya Avila.
Montan was wanted by international authorities for aggravated kidnapping, along with his association with Tren de Aragua, a gang founded in Venezuela. The head of the gang has been a wanted man in Peru since 2023 for a number of crimes ranging from extortion to drug trafficking.
After fleeing Chile in June 2024, Rojas Montan was quick to relocate to Colombia, where he was thought to be working to expand operations of the gang well into the Aburra Valley. The area has an estimated population of four million people.
According to reports, Operation Shadow 3, the name of the October raid, was carried out by Colombian, Chilean, and Peruvian authorities with the backing of the US Drug Enforcement Agency and Ameripol.
Police said that the trio of surviving suspects arrested in the raid was allegedly involved in the gang’s expansion and tasked with managing synthetic drug distributions, extortion networks, and sexual exploitation operations.