Gabriel De Souza (26) was wanted since August of last year in La Plata. He had stabbed a newsagent and shot his 14-year-old son during the robbery of the store. His accomplice had been arrested, but he managed to escape. In the last hours, they recognized him aboard a motorcycle. While escaping from the police, a neighbor alerted what happened and applied a flying kick to the chest. The images of the precise moment of the coup were viralized.
The incident occurred on Tuesday, when police officers found him after learning that he was engaged in the sale of drugs in the area of 3 and 80, where an undercover surveillance was mounted.
In the vicinity, the agents saw him on a motorcycle. He was given the stop voice and accelerated at full speed. The persecution extended to 1 and 80. The suspect brushed the cord and fell to the ground.
It was so that he continued his running until he was stopped by a neighbor who acted as a vigilante and applied a karate kick that rolled the suspect down the sidewalk.
A security camera recorded the moment in which Souza escaped on his motorcycle and several neighbors began to chase him. After his fall, he returned to the same point without the vehicle and received the kick of the neighbor.
The moment of the kick.
That unforeseen and sudden maneuver allowed the troops to stop him. He had in his possession an unnumbered .22 caliber revolver, 16 rounds of ammunition, cocaine and about four thousand pesos in cash. They also hijacked the Honda Wave motorcycle in which he was traveling.
De Souza was placed at the disposal of UFI No. 7 of the Judicial Department of La Plata for the crime of "doubly aggravated robbery, attempted homicide, illegal possession of a firearm, violation of Law 23,737, resistance to authority and violation of Article 289 of the CCP."
Six months on the run
On August 14 of last year, De Souza and Dario Romero – his accomplice – entered to rob a kiosk located at 16 and 80. They forcibly entered when the owners were closing.
De Souza stabbed a 42-year-old shopkeeper in the back and began to struggle. He then wounded his son (14) in the arm, chest and hip. Romero, meanwhile, began shooting with his firearm. He wounded one of the victims in the arm. Both criminals escaped on a motorcycle with 50,000 pesos, a cell phone and jewelry.
Members of the DDI La Plata did field work, collected testimonies and relieved security cameras and communications that finally allowed to identify those involved. Romero was arrested on November 11.
The investigation continued to find De Souza, who was known to be selling drugs in the area of 3 and 80.
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