On Saturday afternoon, a Franco police officer frustrated the theft of a vehicle to an application driver who was approached by two false passengers in the commune of Pedro Aguirre Cerda, in the Metropolitan Region.
According to police information, the incident occurred at 8.30 pm at the intersection of the Bombero Ossandón streets with Safo Passage, where the criminals intimidated the driver and attacked her with a blow to the head to subtract the vehicle.
However, at that moment, a police officer who left his turn and approached his home, noticed the fact and intervened.
Lieutenant Colonel Gustavo Tapia, from the Rinconada Prefecture, said that “a carabinero as Franco proceeded to repel a robbery with intimidation that affected a woman (…) in which and when he was alerted by the community at the site of the event, he quickly attends and in legitimate defense, to help a woman, conductor of the Indrive app, which was assaulted on the mobile by two subjects. ”
The police officer made use of his particular weapon, with which he shot at the subjects who also carried firearms.
“(He) tip an undetermined amount of shots, killing one of the subjects that was inside the vehicle “added Tapia, who explained that the second subject, in the rear seat, took the weapons of the first and fired against the police, who responded with a shot and managed to hurt him in his right leg.
Despite the confrontation, The police do not register injuries.
Ready of the dead offender also arrived to the event of the event, so he was displayed by personnel from Public Order Control (COP) to prevent the site of the event from being altered.
In turn, sub -prefect Rodrigo Rodríguez, head of the Southern homicide brigade, He added that the South Metropolitan Prosecutor’s Office ordered the work of the BH, together with the Criminalistics Laboratory, the Department of Criminal Medicine and the East Robber Research Brigade.
“A police officer who was going through the place realizes it, he identifies himself as such, Being intimidated by a firearm that points to him the first accused, he repels that intimidation, shooting. After that, he shoots another subject who was inside, who is injured, ”said Rodríguez.
The head of the South BH said that “the first of these accused is deceased and is inside the vehicle, while the second accused is transferred injured, injured, until the dependence of the Barros Luco Hospital, from where it remains hospitalized. ”
