Origins
Roa was 26 years old at the time of the Gaitán assassination and his own subsequent death. He was the son of Encarnación Sierra and Rafael Roa. According to a memoir by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, his mother was a Gaitán follower, and was home preparing her grieving dress, when she heard on the radio that her son was the assassin. Gabriel Garcia Marquez's book, Vivir para contarla, expressed doubts about Roa's guilt.
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