The man who shot himself with police officers in Retiro died after stealing the gun from an agent

10/30/2020 1:51 PM

• Clarín.com

• Police

Updated 10/30/2020 1:51 PM

The "Retiro shooter" who stole the gun from an agent of the City Police and generated a shooting with

in which he, a cyclist and two policemen were injured, died in the last hours of this Thursday at the Fernández Hospital, where he had been admitted after the incident that occurred on Tuesday at 7.30 in the morning in front of the San Martín train station.

According to the informants, the defendant

received three shots in the leg, abdomen and thorax

.

By order of the judge in the case, Paula Petazzi, of the 11th National Criminal and Correctional Court, Mosqueda was in the health center as a detainee and in police custody.

Mosqueda lived in the Army de los Andes neighborhood of Ciudadela, better known as "Fuerte Apache", had an

and in 2016 the Family Court 3 of San Martín had ordered his

.

Regarding the 24-year-old cyclist who was also injured by a bullet and transferred in the first instance to the Fernández Hospital, the sources clarified that his condition was not serious and he was referred by social work to another health center.

For their part, the two agents who were shot, one from the City Police in the ankle, and a Federal Police (PFA) agent with a brush on one hand, were also in good health at the Hospital Churruca of Parque Patricios.

The incident occurred on Tuesday at 7.30 when, at the intersection of Calle 13 and Avenida Ramos Mejía, in the vicinity of Barrio 31 and the entrance to the former San Martín railway station, a man

of the City Police, took from his holster his regulation pistol, a 9-millimeter Bersa, and fled in the direction of Avenida Del Libertador.

The agent reported the theft of the weapon and immediately came to the scene to help members of the Rapid Intervention Directorate (DIR) of the City Police and agents of the PFA belonging to the San Martín Railroad Division, who gave the voice of stop .

The fact was recorded by several security cameras, in which it was observed that by not giving up their attitude,

, Mosqueda fell wounded and from the floor he managed to mount and unseat the weapon and began to shoot .

In these circumstances, there was a crossfire and it was one of the DIR agents who tried to kick the weapon away from him and, failing to do so, he pounced on the aggressor and managed to reduce him in a maneuver in which that police officer ended up being injured. shot in the ankle.

The cyclist and a PFA agent with a rub on one hand were the other two wounded who joined the shooter and the policeman who stopped him.

Police sources and some witnesses who know him affirmed that Mosqueda was a man in a street situation who stops in the area and is usually "aggressive and conflictive."

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