02/15/2021 12:39 PM
Clarín.com
Police
Updated 02/15/2021 12:49 PM
A reprehensible event occurred over the weekend in a La Plata supermarket.
Two criminals entered the premises to rob the premises and, to intimidate customers,
shot a 10-year-old boy inches from the head
.
The violent robbery occurred on Saturday afternoon in the San Carlos neighborhood, in a store called "Super 32", located at 32 between 131 and 132. After 6 pm, two thieves entered the place and one of them extracted a firearm , threatened those present and targeted a young woman, who had a baby in her arms.
After taking the woman's cell phone, he continued to intimidate the customers of the place and, without thinking too much, shot inches from the head of a boy who was standing in front of the box.
Later, the assailants
escaped with the tickets
that the 18-year-old cashier gave them and with merchandise.
One of them was detained a while later by personnel from the La Unión Sub-Police Station.
One of the criminals shot inches at a baby who was waiting in the box.
TV capture.
"Although he was caught in 133 and 526, despite the fact that he got into some corridors of a settlement, they
already released him due to his age,
"
a source in the case
told the newspaper
Hoy
, who added that who took care of the teenager it was the Prosecutor's Office for Criminal Responsibility No. 2 of La Plata.
There, despite the initiation of a case labeled
"qualified robbery due to the use of a firearm and weapon abuse,
" it was determined that the person involved should return to his family.
The other criminal is still at large, although he is wanted after being identified by the security cameras that recorded the entire robbery.
"We made the complaint, but unfortunately they
are minors and nothing can be done
. That is what the police told us," said Agustina, one of the supermarket employees, in dialogue with
TN
.
Resigned, the young woman assured that "the only thing that can be expected is that they increase security in the area so that robberies decrease."
And he said that the police station took their complaint and "paid attention" to them, but that "a little more is expected" from the security forces.
Regarding what happened in the robbery, he assured that "it was a regrettable situation" and that
the offender's shot was "for a colleague"
, but that "it did not hit" and "luckily they are all fine."
"They wanted me to give them all the money, the cell phones, everything. My colleagues gave them everything in the box. Now we are afraid because there is no security here and those who are at risk are us, we are the ones who are in the care public, "he concluded.
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