Mauro Aguilar
02/19/2021 12:58 AM
Clarín.com
Police
Updated 02/19/2021 8:20 AM
The sequence is fierce
and the detail was recorded in at least two security cameras.
It's 4:21 p.m. and the movement in Corrientes and Ayolas, a populous sector in the southern part of Rosario, is fluid.
Two jets
stop at the corner and one hurries down.
He points a gun and demands a backpack from a man, a plainclothes policeman, who is seen against a wall.
Then he claims the wallet or the money, depending on what is seen in the image.
The episode seems to end as one more round.
But not.
When the thief walks away to board the motorcycle again, where the accomplice was waiting for him a short distance away,
the police officer who was robbed takes out a gun
and an exchange of shots takes place: the driver of the vehicle a few meters ago trying to escape with his wobbly motorbike, until it fell on the sidewalk.
He tries to get up, but
is killed
by a bullet impact in the abdomen.
The other criminal - the one who had previously gotten off the motorcycle to steal the backpack -
fled the area with a wound on his left leg
.
He ran five blocks and tried to take refuge in a rubber shop.
When he was treated, he claimed to have been the victim of an assault.
The employees attended to him, but finally they noticed something strange and managed to prevent him from entering a sector of the business.
“He asked me for help telling me that they wanted to steal it.
I realized I had a gunshot wound.
He asked me for water, to sit down.
I stepped inside and realized that something was not right.
He told me to drive him to the hospital, which would give me money.
At no point did he show me a weapon.
When he saw that I was looking for something, he escaped ”, said the gum store employee.
The assailant escaped again and in the race
discarded the weapon
, a cell phone and even a blister of pills.
He took a taxi and went to the Clemente Alvarez Emergency Hospital (Heca).
In the guard once again he told that he had been assaulted and that was why he was injured.
The taxi driver noticed that the passenger who had taken the injured person to the hospital
forgot a backpack in the car
, the same one that was later found to be the one that had been stolen from the policeman.
There was the stolen money.
The driver returned to the hospital to return it and there it was noticed that the young assailant was lying.
Finally he was admitted to police custody.
He is only 17 years old
, so he was in charge of a juvenile court.
Investigators presume that the criminals followed the policeman because minutes before
He had completed a commercial operation and
carried a sum close to 85 thousand pesos
.
This is what they demanded of him when they took away his backpack.
The policeman was on the sidewalk, at the door of a business where they attended to him to sell him a cross key for the car.
According to the prosecutor in the case, Gastón Avila, the policeman fired with his service weapon as part of an
"action in legitimate defense
.
"
He was unharmed.
The agent -identified for the moment only with his initials NO-, was delayed until verifying the mechanics of the event.
His service weapon was seized.
The criminals also carried a 9 millimeter.
“I think it is quite clear that it is a legitimate defense.
We are going to finish closing the last details and criminal evidence.
The event is filmed.
It is seen that the confrontation is head-on and that both shoot
.
I think it is almost simultaneously.
There is an unlawful assault with a firearm that is seen to be used.
He is seen being shot from a close distance.
And when (the criminal who died) falls to the ground, he does not shoot him, ”the prosecutor explained to the press.
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