07/04/2021 19:40
Clarín.com
Police
Updated 07/04/2021 19:40
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A 24-year-old Uber driver was shot in the head in La Matanza and this Sunday he was hospitalized, stable, in the Paroissien hospital.
They believe he was attacked by thieves who were traveling in three stolen cars hours earlier.
Judicial sources reported that the attack occurred on Friday night, when
Gonzalo René León
left his partner's birthday celebration in
Rafael Castillo
, around 11
p.m.,
and got into his Toyota Corolla to make some trips with the Uber application.
Something happened when Gonzalo arrived at the intersection of Avenue and Coronel Bogado Christiania, on the border of the towns of
Villa Luzuriaga
and
Rafael Castillo
.
At that corner, the driver passed three other cars, which had been stolen in the last hours.
It is being investigated if the criminals tried to rob Gonzalo, but the truth is that
they shot him
.
Avenida Cristianía and Coronel Bogado, where they shot the driver.
One of the bullets
hit the
driver's
head
, who continued to drive his Toyota for a block until it
hit
a streetlight pole.
The police arrived at the scene alerted by the crash, but when they checked the driver they realized that Gonzalo was
badly injured
, so they immediately called for an ambulance.
The driver was transferred to the Paroissien hospital, where he remained hospitalized: "He
is stable,
" added the sources consulted.
Meanwhile, the prosecutor Marcelo Diomede, from the Functional Unit of Instruction No. 5 of the La Matanza Judicial Department, ordered a series of measures to find Gonzalo's attackers and establish under what circumstances they shot him.
Stolen cars
From the survey of
security cameras
located in the area where Gonzalo was attacked, images were obtained showing the sequence that ended with the injured taxi driver and the flight of the suspects in the three cars and heading to
Camino de Cintura
.
Based on the images, the researchers were able to observe the license plates of the three cars
used by criminals:
all had
recently
been robbed
.
Avenida Crisitianía and Coronel Bogado, on the border between Villa Luzuriaga and Rafael Castillo.
It is a
black
Volkswagen Suran
that had been stolen on Saturday morning from a policewoman in the town of Isidro Casanova, the sources explained.
Another of the cars involved was a
dark gray
Chevrolet Corsa
: it had been stolen in the
San Carlos neighborhood
of La Matanza, by three armed robbers who were mobilizing in the VW Suran stolen from the agent.
While the third car used by the criminals was a
blue
Fiat Uno
, which had also been stolen in the
San Carlos neighborhood
of La Matanza and the thieves were traveling in a VW Suran or a similar car, as reported.
The truth is that, despite all the information we have, criminals who shot Gonzalo Villa Luzuriaga still at
large
.
With information from Télam
DD - EMJ
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