(From Santiago, Chile) A man identified as DELG is in preventive prison from early Sunday morning then seriously injure shot at two young people on the busy Avenida del Mar in The Serena (470 kilometers north of Santiago). The fact remained recorded by a security camera.
According to the investigation carried out by the prosecutor’s office, it is a ex military 53 years old who, totally alcoholicbegan to death threat with a firearm at customers who were outside a nightclub.
Seeing this, a group of young people began to try to corner him, in order to reduce him and take away his weapon. At one point, two of them lunge at him and a struggle ensues and multiple shots. Within a few seconds, two of them fell to the ground, all in front of the terrified patrons of a pub who saw the entire scene behind the windows. The victims are two young people from 23 and 20 years old, those who are in serious condition, one of them with life risk.
The shooting occurred a day after a tourist was stabbed for resisting a robbery on Avenida Costanera, very close there, in Coquimbo. Due to this, the Chamber of Tourism urgently requested a Carabineros checkpoint on the coastal edge.
Prosecutor Nicolás Shertzer asked at the formalization hearing to charge the accused – whose identity was not revealed, as it is protected by the court – with three charges: two attempted homicides and a crime of unjustified firing of a firearm in public.
As detailed by the pursuer, the incident occurred around 4:30 in the morning, The accused found himself “in a state of intoxication, disturbing public order, carrying a firearm (…) which he began to display and target several passersby who were in the place.”
“In this dynamic, and in the face of a large flow of people, a group of four young subjects tried to dissuade him from his actions, through a conversation at first, to end up by force trying to subdue him and take away his weapon” , he continued.
It was at that moment when “with the intention of killing, he shot the victims,” identified as Renzo Bazán and Alexander Pereira.
After the shooting, the retired soldier tried to flee on a nearby street, “at which time he unjustifiably carried out at least a shot on a public street towards the people who followed him.” Luckily, no one else was hurt.
Finally he hid in an empty place near the place, where Carabineros took him into custody. with the gun still in his hand.
Prosecutor Shertzer also announced at the hearing that the accused already had a criminal record, since he recorded a conviction of the year 1998 for the crime of drunk driving resulting in damage and injuries. For this fact he was sentenced to a sentence of 61 days in prison, which he served sentthat is, without effective prison.
The Prosecutor’s case is based on the fact that the victims’ injuries are “the mortal type” and as it turned out, the weapon is duly registered in Iquique, although the accused does not have permission to carry it anywhere in the country. Due to all this background, the judge decreed his preventive prison and set a deadline of 60 days for investigation.
