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Buenos Aires Police sergeant was shot to death
by the driver of a car that had stopped to identify him.
The crime occurred in the town of 9 de Abril, part of Esteban Echeverría, in the south of the Conurbano, this Monday afternoon.
The victim was identified as
Fernando Javier Alvez
, who served in the Esteban Echeverría Local Prevention Police Unit (UPPL), which belongs to the Buenos Aires Province Police.
Alvez was driving a patrol truck on Olimpo and Route 4, accompanied by another agent, when he saw a dark gray Volkswagen Vento go by with a new license plate and a broken rear window.
That caught the attention of the policeman who went after the car and ordered the driver to stop, according to sources in the case to
Télam
.
The two policemen got out of the truck and so did the man who was driving the car.
Alvez asked for the documentation, so the driver returned to the Vento and got in to look for the papers.
When the sergeant approached the window, they shot at him from inside the car.
Alvez would have responded to the attack with his service pistol, but the attackers escaped.
In a video taken by a security camera from a service station located on Olympus, the policeman is seen running back to the patrol car, apparently without noticing that he had been shot.
But when the police car starts up, he makes a U-turn and goes in the opposite direction from El Vento.
The truck managed to do a few more meters until Alvez could not continue driving due to the injury.
The sergeant was rushed to the Esteban Echeverría Bicentennial Hospital, where he died while undergoing surgery.
The investigators analyzed the images from different security cameras in search of clues about the murderers, who at the time of writing this note were on the run.
The case was in charge of the prosecutor Jorge Grieco, of the Functional Instruction Unit (UFI) 8 of Lomas de Zamora.
The members of the Homicide Cabinet of the Departmental Investigations Directorate (DDI) of the same jurisdiction are also involved.
MG
