05/16/2021 10:43 AM
Clarín.com
Police
Updated 05/16/2021 10:43 AM
A 30-year-old policeman
was shot dead this Sunday
during an operation to defuse a clandestine party in Mar del Plata and a suspect was arrested for the crime.
According to police and judicial sources,
the incident occurred during the early hours of the morning, around 4 o'clock,
at a home in the south of the city and the victim was identified as Officer Diego Rosales, who was serving at the 5th Police Station.
from the seaside resort.
Rosales and a colleague went on a mobile phone to a house located in Jorge Newbery and Pesquero Narwal,
after a complaint from neighbors
about an alleged clandestine party.
Upon arriving at the scene, they observed that a taxi driver was attacked by a group of young people who were leaving the party,
"kicking and throwing stones at his vehicle
.
"
The area where the officer's death occurred.
Photo: Google Maps
The officers chased the attackers to another property on Calle Pesquero Quovadis at 3700 and noticed that one of them carried a firearm on his waist and tried to arrest him.
According to sources, the armed suspect
"ignored the loud voice"
and entered the home with other young people.
From there, it is believed that the owner of the house fired at least one shot that hit Rosales, who was transferred to the Private Community Hospital but died on the way.
A detainee charged with "aggravated homicide"
The alleged perpetrator of the shot was identified as Héctor Amílcar Morán (69), who was apprehended at the scene, where a Gesichert 9-millimeter pistol was later seized.
The spokesmen consulted added that in the procedure one of the officers also fired a shot "with his regulation weapon without consequences."
"A shotgun shot with anti-riot ammunition was also fired on a wall inside the house," said an investigation, which detailed that there were "about 18 people" present at the scene.
The investigation was in charge of the prosecutor Alejandro Pellegrinelli, head of the Functional Instruction Unit (UFI) 5 of Mar del Plata, who initiated a case for
"homicide aggravated by the use of a firearm"
in the case of the apprehended, and another for violation of domicile to the young people who entered the house.
Prosecutor Carlos Russo, of the Juvenile Criminal Responsibility Court, also intervened, which initiated proceedings for violation of the domicile of punishable young people and ordered the restitution of those not punishable to their parents.
In addition, the Federal Justice was intervened for violation of the restrictions in force in the framework of the coronavirus pandemic.
With information from Télam
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