Two armed criminals approached a woman and her autistic son in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Barracas. A plainclothes police officer intervened and exchanged gunfire with the robbers.
One was left lying on the asphalt with a wound in the abdomen, but the other got into the vehicle and escaped, with Susana's son inside. The criminal tried to escape at full speed, but a few meters away, at Vélez Sarsfield and Iriarte, he collided with another vehicle. He survived the impact and walked out of the car, but later he collapsed and fell dead in the middle of the street. The woman says that she was desperate because in her mind, the only thing she wanted was to get her son back. "I admire him because he did his duty, because he was brave because he is also risking his life," she says of the police officer who intervened in the incident. "He risked his life for my son, and for us," says Susana.