2023-04-20 00:03:00
The Copiapó Guarantee Court left police officer Valentina Alexandra Carrasco Catalán subject to the precautionary measure of national tiescharged by the Public Ministry as the author of the quasi-crime of homicide in yellow earth.
At the formalization hearing, magistrate Álvaro Fernández Morales accepted the precautionary measure requested by the Public Ministry, considering it proportional to the purposes of the procedure. In addition, he set the investigation period at four months.
Carabinera who accidentally killed a colleague at the Tierra Amarilla checkpoint
According to the prosecuting entity, yesterday, Tuesday, April 18, 2023, at approximately 7:10 a.m., at the Sacramento checkpoint located in the town of Los Loros, Tierra Amarilla commune, the accused Valentina Alexandra Carrasco Catalán, first corporal of the Carabineros, who She was out on duty, she was instructed to remove various firearms from the armory, including a Taurus 38-millimeter revolver, to be transferred to the Tierra Amarilla sub-station for shooting practice attended by several police officers.
In this dynamic, the defendant began to keep the Taurus revolver without checking -as indicated by the institutional regulations- if it was properly unloaded, or after she had loaded the revolver with six shots, at which time without due care she activated the weapon percussing a shot, which hit his co-worker Leonardo Duque Catricheo, who was a meter away doing the same work. This caused a heart thoracic wound from a bullet impact that caused his death minutes later in the same police precinct.
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