10/20/2020 3:57 PM
Clarín.com
Police
Updated 10/20/2020 4:19 PM
Esteban Nicolás Lagos, the Federal Police agent killed above a bus in Barracas, received four bullets, as determined by the autopsy, judicial sources reported.
Experts from the Forensic Medical Corps informed the prosecutor in the case, Martín López Perrando, that Lagos (28) was hit in the neck, chest, arm and leg.
Meanwhile, the passenger who was also killed, Juan Roberto Bonifacio (43), who worked as a street sweeper, received a single shot that entered through the back and affected several organs.
"This man was in one of the seats facing the rear window, that's why the shot entered him from behind,"
one of the investigators
told
Télam
.
Esteban Lagos and Roberto Bonifacio, victims of the insecurity in Barracas.
Although the tests had not concluded, the experts from the Scientific Police collected a total of
seven served pods
from the floor of the collective
, all 9 mm caliber.
The incident occurred at 11:40 p.m. on Monday aboard an inmate on line 100, branch 1, which was circulating on Vieytes street, between Quinquela Martín and Suárez, where two armed criminals got on.
In addition to the two deceased, there were two other passengers wounded by gunshot wounds, although none were serious.
This is Federico Sánchez, 34, who was admitted with a gunshot wound to his leg and was already referred to the Bazterrica Clinic for his social work;
and Christian Banegas, 30, shot in the foot.
At the time of the event, 10 people were traveling in the bus, plus the unit's driver, identified as Pablo Ramírez.
Ramírez told
La Red radio
that the criminals shouted "
Well, they are all given away
!"
and one of them started shooting.
When Lagos, who was traveling in uniform, got up from his seat to call out, a shooting started and he was caught from behind by the thief who was at the rear of the unit.
"Not know what to do.
I opened the door, the first one jumped out and closed it again because I thought they both got out.
The other one pointed at me and asked me to open it and the door would not open with the bus running, ”Ramírez said with anguish.
Deadly assault in Barracas aboard a bus line 100. Photo Maxi Failla
In addition, it reported that the criminals escaped only with Officer Lagos' weapon and that nothing else was stolen.
After the assault and the shooting, the driver drove the bus to the door of the 4D neighborhood police station of the City Police, where he asked for help and there the transfers of the shot took place.
EMJ
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