The PDI and the North Central Prosecutor’s Office delivered the first details of the investigation into the three people shot during a march in the Meiggs neighborhood. One of them is life-threatening.
The PDI Homicide Brigade and the North Center Prosecutor’s Office carry out tests to confirm whether the two detainees in the barrio Meiggs They were the ones who wounded the three people injured by bullets. One of them is life-threatening.
individuals, of Colombian and Venezuelan nationalitywere detained by Carabineros in the midst of the disorders for a Labor Day march called by the Central Classista de Trabajadores.
According to the prefect Víctor Ruiz, head of the Metropolitan Homicide Brigade, both would be traveling merchants who confronted the demonstrators who were involved in incidents in the Meiggs sector, the border area between Santiago and Estación Central.
Ruiz explained that in total there were three people shot and a fourth by a blunt object.
In addition, he indicated that work is being done to confirm if the detainees were the ones who fired the shots that injured said persons, as well as establishing whether they carried real firearms or blank firearms.
He added that, for now, they are being investigated for the crime of unjustified shooting.
Used ammunition recovered
For his part, the Central North prosecutor, Fernando Ruiz, pointed out that at the scene of the events Various ammunition was foundincluding a 9-millimeter caliber bullet and others that, at first glance, appear to be .40 caliber.
Along with it, he also recovered blank firearm ammunition not fit to cause the wounds that the three injured have, so the investigation is key to linking the two detainees with this case.
The persecutor added that two of the wounded -one with a shoulder injury and another in a leg- they have a projectile exitso the ammunition that injured them was not recovered.
This is different in the case of the most seriously injured woman, a journalist from Signal 3 La Victoriawho was injured in the face and is undergoing surgery at the former Posta Central.
The prosecutor claimed that his condition is critical and remains life-threatening.