Lomas de Zamora: Uber driver was shot in the head and is brain dead

2024-01-19 08:55:00

A 40-year-old driver who worked with the Uber application suffered a robbery in Villa Centenario, Lomas de Zamora district, and one of the criminals who approached him when he was dropping off a passenger shot him in the head, causing brain death.

This new chapter of savagery and insecurity in the suburbs emerged this Thursday but occurred late on Wednesday, January 17. Enrique Carlos Pohl He was surprised by two thieves, who approached him at the intersection of General Rodríguez and Benito Pérez Galdós streets.

Pohl, 40, was driving a Volkswagen Surán and according to the testimony of the vehicle’s passenger,The criminals would be minors. The woman also said that the thieves pointed their weapons at the victim, one on each side of the vehicle, and the one on the side at the window. The driver shot him in the head.

The passenger, who had already gotten out of the car, indicated that she believes that the thiefand the shot would have escaped him in the struggle, when Pohl would have tried to resist. After shooting him, the criminals took some money and ran away. The Police are trying at this time, with the security cameras in the area, to identify the thieves.

A neighbor called 911 and the police immediately arrived at the scene, while Pohl was still wearing his seat belt and with some money in his hand. The Functional Instruction Unit (UFI) 1 of Lomas de Zamora intervenes in the case, which ordered the analysis of fingerprints found on a cell phone.

For his part, Pohl was rushed to the Gandulfo Hospital and later to the High Complexity Hospital of the Bicentenario, in Esteban Echeverría, where he is in intensive care in serious condition and with a dramatic picture of brain death.

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