In a joint action between the Prosecutor’s Office and the Carabineros, the arrest of a third subject who would be implicated in the homicide of the carabinero Daniel Palma was achieved.
During the afternoon of this Wednesday, through Twitter, The Central North Prosecutor’s Office reported that the “arrest of the third member of the gang responsible for the murder of Petty Officer Daniel Palma” was achieved.
Is about Daniel Fuentes Escalona, a 23-year-old Venezuelan citizen, who would have participated in the shooting prior to the crime of the police officer. The individual was captured in the Macul commune and a weapon was seized from him at the time of his arrest.
According to the entity, the “The defendant is involved in a shooting prior to the carabinero crime and was arrested for the crime of frustrated homicide.”
It should be noted that during the hearing for the arrest of Luis Lugo and Ovimarlixion Garcés, the prosecutor in charge explained that this case “begins on April 5, a little before 9 pm at the corner of Coquimbo and San Francisco in the commune from Santiago, two cars arrive with people inside, a burgundy Nissan Versa model and a blue Chevrolet Sonic model car, they get out of these two vehicles and enter a city that is the house that is just in the corner”.
“In that place a little before 9 at night there was a shooting, the subjects who arrived in these vehicles shot on several occasions against other people who had arrived in a taxi in that place, there are people who even end up throwing themselves from the windows of that house. They leave chasing the defendants who had arrived in these two cars, shooting at them, these victims are not injured, they manage to get into the taxi and flee from that place, ”he added at the time.
Along these lines, the prosecutor explained at that time that of the defendants “There are a couple that walk and another four that get into the blue Chevrolet Sonic and that’s when they take a short tour and at the corner of Arturo Prat and Matta they meet the police officer, Corporal Palma, and they shoot him in the face, which ends up causing his death. Later they fled and approached a taxi driver at the corner of San Francisco and Biobío, these four occupants of the Chevrolet car got out, approached the taxi driver with firearms and asked them to remove him from the place.