A gunman who traveled on a motorcycle, apparently with a delivery box, He attacked the three passengers who were inside a taxi with shots. The shooting occurred this Sunday afternoon in Ituzaingó, between Corrientes and Entre Ríos, in the Abasto neighborhood of rosary beadsthree blocks from the gastronomic corridor of Pellegrini Avenue in the city center.
Two of the victims were transferred to the Clemente Álvarez Emergency Hospital. –one is delicate– and the other to the Provincial Hospital.
The attack took place around 7 p.m. According to the first testimonies accessed Infobaethe Chevrolet Corsa taxi – which did not have the traditional “little hat” with the RA number on the top of the car – carried one passenger in the front and the other two in the back seats.
According to what neighbors heard and the driver of the car reported, There were five shots fired by the gunman.
The Police found four served pods that will be seized by the criminalistics office of the Investigative Police, which intervened at the scene of the incident at the request of the Flagrancy fiscal unit of the Public Prosecutor’s Office.
After the ambush, the taxi transported two of the injured to Heca, where they were hospitalized. They are Nicole M., 18, who had an impact on each leg, and Daniel M., 26, who had several injuries. The young man was intubated and his prognosis is reserved.
The third passenger was taken by an ambulance from the Integrated Health Emergency System to the Provincial Hospital with a gunshot wound to the left thigh.
Based on data collected by police investigators, The passengers came from the Cabin 9 neighborhood of Péreza city attached to the west of Rosario.
The taxi was seized at the Heca guard gate and will be sent to the 5th police station, located in Italy at 2100, for forensic examinations. Meanwhile, the driver is being investigated: “In relation to the service, We are looking at routes and modalities, but it was with its watch off and without a ‘hat’, so it was not in service”, the sources of the case confided to this medium.
Official sources indicated that last week the taxi went for a technical inspection and the license plate was removed because “the unit was in poor condition.” It has been out of service for a week,” was the explanation at the beginning of the investigation that was unleashed after the attack.
The shooting took place in a weekend full of intimidating events. In the early hours of Saturday, 13 cars that were parked in different parts of Rosario were intentionally set on fire, mainly in the south and west of the city.
At the scene of two of the attacks, notes addressed to Governor Maximiliano Pullarothe Minister of Security Pablo Cococcioni and his national pair Patricia Bullrichwhere they warn that there will be “innocent dead” and ask for visits and communications from prison.
One of the messages said verbatim: “Bullrich, Pullaro and Cococcioni, this is for you, we want the calls and visits to return if we are not going to continue killing innocents.” Signed: “The Rosarinos”.
For one of the intentional fires three suspects were arrested who were later released because there was no evidence linking them to the case.
On Saturday, but at night, there were two complaints about intimidation of bus drivers. According to one of the presentations, a group of suspects stopped an inmate on line 112 in the vicinity of Avellaneda and Nuestra Señora del Rosario and left him a paper in the unit that contained a threat towards Pullaro and Cococcioni. An hour later, in the same area, an armed man tried to get on another bus on the same line, but when he was unable to do so He fired shots at the car without success..
Due to the two episodes made known by the bus drivers, four urban passenger transport lines cut part of their route due to fear. This Monday, according to what was announced, they will return to regular circulation.
