Cucuta
The incident occurred on the night of this Tuesday, May 7, when the uniformed officers of the CAI Betanía in the municipality of Los Patios They responded to the community’s call for a case of theft that was being recorded. Upon reaching the point, a chase by the police and upon reaching the San Nicolás neighborhoodthe exchange of shots occurred that ended the life of the sLieutenant Carlos Contreras and left the two criminals injured.
“It is a regrettable case for the institution, the loss of our second lieutenant Carlos Contreras, 24 years old, commander of the CAI Betania, who was serving at the Los Patios police station, when he was alerted by some subjects who were armed in the La Campiña sector. Immediately The uniformed man moves to the sector with other uniformed men and upon arriving at the scene, they located two subjects on a motorcycle, who, upon noticing the police presence,and generates an exchange of shots with the uniformed menthe second lieutenant, a native of Aguachica, Cesar, unfortunately losing his life,” said the Colonel William Quintero, police commander of the Cúcuta Metropolitan Area.
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The officer highlighted that “it is a very unfortunate case, the loss of a young man who did his duty, but also We must highlight the courageous action of the uniformed menfrom a quadrant that reacts in a timely manner, manage to impact these criminals, andThese bandits, of foreign citizenshipwhich are what caused the death of our uniformed man.”
The weapon with which the homicide was committed was seized. Another of the uniformed men also received a bullet wound to one of his shoulders.
They order three days of mourning for the death of the uniformed man
The Director of the National Police, the General William René Salamanca ordered three days of mourning for the death of the uniformed commander of the CAI Betania in the municipality of Los Patios.
“Three days of mourning! “We condemn with the greatest vehemence the crime of Second Lieutenant Carlos Eduardo Contreras Manosalva, perpetrated at kilometer 9 of the road in the municipality of Los Patios (Norte de Santander), where patrolman Holman Farid Díaz Hernández was also injured” was published on the official account of x.
In the next few hours a security council in the municipality of Los Patios.
