04/25/2021 3:28 PM
Clarín.com
Police
Updated 04/25/2021 4:10 PM
A sergeant from the Buenos Aires Cavalry Division, who works as a driver for the Beat application,
killed an
18-year-old
criminal
who tried to rob him after posing as a client.
It happened in the San Alberto de La Matanza neighborhood.
The thief accosted the agent already inside the car, a red Volkswagen Gol Trend, and then an armed accomplice appeared with whom the policeman shot himself.
That criminal is a
fugitive
and they suspect that he was injured, according to
Clarín
.
It all happened this Sunday, around 8.30.
The 29-year-old policeman, a neighbor of Isidro Casanova and who makes extra money working as a
driver
for a travel app, received a request from a client named
Diego
for the address of Germán Abdala, between Berro and Gaboto, in the San neighborhood. Alberto.
Isidro Casanova, the sergeant who works in the Campana division and, who was in civilian clothes, knew about that area, decided to carry
his pistol under one of his legs
as a precaution, according to sources in the investigation.
Germán Abdala, between Berro and Gaboto, in the San Alberto neighborhood.
One of the hottest areas of La Matanza.
When he got to the place of the appointment that the application marked, a young man
beckoned him
.
The sergeant asked him if it was
Diego
and, after confirming it, he unlocked the door so he could get into the car.
The boy, like any passenger, got into the back of the VW Gol Trend, however his intentions were not to take a trip:
he gave the driver a pineapple
.
Later,
He took him by the neck from behind, the sources explained.
It was then that a second offender appeared on the scene.
He wanted to open one of the car doors but they were locked and
he pointed at the driver
, not knowing that there was an armed policeman in front of him.
"The sergeant
shot the criminal
who was targeting him, who responded with bullets, and also the thief who was in his car," they described.
Then, he opened the door to drop the injured boy.
Half block away
Five
9-millimeter caliber
pods were lifted from the crime scenes
, while from the interior of the VW Gol Trend they were also seized
another five.
In other words,
there were at least 10 shots
that shook the silence of this Sunday morning in the San Alberto neighborhood.
This is how the mother of
Jonathan Nahuel Gutiérrez (18)
found out that her son, whom she saw at dawn listening to music with a friend, was not at her house in Berro and Germán Abdala, but half a block away, lying on the asphalt and
dead
.
The accomplice with whom he had tried to rob the policeman who was driving a car from the Beat application
escaped
.
They suspect that the sergeant wounded him during the shooting.
Abdala, between Berro and Gaboto.
The dead criminal lived half a block away.
Meanwhile, the policeman, fearing the reaction of the residents of the San Alberto neighborhood, left the place, called 911 to report what had happened
and presented himself at the 6th Police Station
, where he handed over his Bersa Thunder pistol, which had 2 Intact shells in its magazine, and the car, sources said.
"The car has at least four shots. Three bullet holes from the inside to the outside, in the windshield and front right window, and one from the outside to the inside, which entered through the stud," according to preliminary information from the Gendarmerie experts, who intervenes in the case because there is a police officer involved.
The case is being investigated by the prosecutor Marcos Borghi, from the UFI Homicide Theme of La Matanza, who did not adopt a temper against the policeman and classified the case as attempted robbery and aggravated homicide.
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