A
Buenos Aires police officer
resisted the theft of his motorcycle this Wednesday and
killed the two criminals
who tried to assault him in the Quilmes district, in the southern area of the suburbs.
The incident occurred around 7 p.m. in the vicinity of the intersection between Camino General Manuel Belgrano and Calle 855, two blocks from the Monteverde roundabout, in the town of Villa La Florida, a few meters from the border with Florencio Varela.
Judicial and force spokespersons reported that the young agent belonged to the Tactical Unit of Immediate Operations (UTOI) of the Buenos Aires Police and that he was
off duty and dressed in civilian clothes
.
They also detailed that he was stopped on that corner aboard his motorcycle, when he was intercepted by two criminals, aged 18 and 20, who intimidated him to steal his vehicle.
Faced with this situation, the police officer identified himself as such, pulled out his service weapon and
fired four shots at both assailants
, who were wounded and ran away.
Finally, both suspects were found lying on the ground a few blocks from the scene, one of them with at least one gunshot wound to the chest, and the other with a bullet wound to the shoulder blade, sources reported.
An ambulance from the Emergency Medical Care System (SAME) attended the scene and found that both thieves had died as a result of gunshot wounds.
The prosecutor Mariana Curra Zamaniego intervenes in the case, in charge of the Functional Instruction Unit (UFI) 6 of the Judicial Department of Quilmes, who supervised the tasks of the experts at the scene of the double crime and seized the Bersa TPR 9 millimeter caliber weapon. of the policeman, but he did not take any temper against him.
This is a new episode of insecurity and violence that the district governed by
Mayra Mendoza
has suffered in recent days.
For example, on the first day of this month, a 36-year-old motorcyclist was injured by a gunshot to the head after trying to rob, along with an accomplice, a sergeant of the Local Prevention Police Unit (UPPL) who was in police custody. dressed in civilian clothes, and who also resisted with his service weapon and responded to the shots.
Ten days later, a police sergeant in the province of Buenos Aires who was working on his francs as a driver for a travel application shot and killed one of the three alleged criminals who tried to steal his vehicle.
Video
The staff was attacked while they were covering the flooding of the Río de la Plata and the flooding of streets.
Shortly after, a journalistic team from the
LN+
signal covering the flooding of streets in Quilmes due to the flooding of the Río de la Plata suffered the theft of the camera with which they were working on their mobile phone after noon.
In a lightning operation, the Police arrested three people.
On Wednesday night, it was the
Crónica TV
team that was scolded by at least five people who approached the scene of the events.
The police who were at the scene quickly drove them away.
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