A driver who works for a travel application was a victim of insecurity when three men pretending to be passengers tried to steal his car in the town of Moreno.
To defend himself, the
driver pulled out a gun and shot them
: he shot one of the three thieves in the head, and he was hospitalized.
The incident occurred on Thursday morning on Barker and Félix de Azara streets, in the Villanueva neighborhood of the town of Villa Trujui, when the 45-year-old driver went in his Ford Ka car to look for passengers who had contracted a travel service. through
the DiDi application
.
But when the driver was about to drop off the passengers at the indicated location, he was threatened with the intention of stealing the vehicle.
According to the victim's own testimony, the criminals began to intimidate him with a firearm so that he would hand over his belongings to them.
At one point, he got out of the car and, with a gun he was carrying, shot three times at his own car, in which the gang was escaping.
After that, the suspects abandoned the car and began to flee on foot, at which point one of them fell to the ground with a
gunshot wound to the head
, while the others fled.
The injured man was taken to the Mariano and Luciano de la Vega hospital by a SAME ambulance.
He remains hospitalized under police custody and in a reserved state, police sources said.
The case fell to the Moreno prosecutor's office, headed by Luisa Pontecorvo, who charged the DiDi driver with the crime of "homicide aggravated by the attempted use of a firearm," but did not
order his arrest
.
The man's weapon, for which
he had a possession permit
, is a 9 millimeter caliber pistol that was seized for the corresponding expert reports.
Source: Télam