The National Police and the Public Prosecutor’s Office are conducting investigations after an event recorded in a sports field located in the San Martín sector of the township of Cativá, province of Colón, where 11 people were injured and one died as a result of a firearm.
The Director General of the National Police, John Dornheim, and the Deputy Director General, Simón Henríquez, were in charge of the operations carried out in the province, after the event that occurred at night, and according to the preliminary investigations of the case, three subjects arrive aboard a vehicle and open fire against a group of people, hitting 12 of them, a 19-year-old dies.
The control points were quickly activated and operational groups were articulated that, in association with Public Ministry officials, carry out search proceedings, where four firearms and alleged drugs are confiscated. In addition, a person is apprehended in the Brisas del Mar sector; it reflects a crime of homicide, the apprehended is not related to the event that occurred on the court.
The vehicle used in this act was found abandoned in the San Pedro sector, being placed in custody for proper inspection, while further investigations are underway to determine the motive and the presumed implicated.
