SAN LUIS POTOSÍ, Mexico.- A young man from Bayamo, Granma, suffered a fatal injury this Friday Shooting at the hands of a policeman who is a neighbor and friend of his.
Although the causes of the incident are unknown, relatives of the victim confirmed to CubaNet that Ernesto Figueredo Alarcón, 23, was shot in his own home, in the Rosa La Bayamesa neighborhood.
The shot was fired by a police officer known as Chucho, who was Ernesto’s friend and neighbor.
Both were alone in a room, talking, when the man from Granma was shot. The incident allegedly occurred at 6:10 pm this Friday.
According to the young man’s family, there was no problem between Ernesto and the police officer and they were not arguing when they heard the shot, so they do not know what could have led to the accident.
Figueredo is currently undergoing therapy and is struggling between life and death at the Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Provincial General Teaching Hospital.
According to information corroborated by CubaNet According to the medical staff attending to him, the young man is brain dead and barely surviving thanks to the machines he is connected to. He still has the bullet in his brain and is bleeding heavily.
Police and State Security personnel are currently at the hospital. The attacker, who was the victim’s neighbour, was arrested by the police, but the police have not given details to the family, nor do they know what the boy’s statement was.
Deaths from firearms in Cuba
Last November, the young Fidel Mayeta Calderín, 24 years old, was murdered in Old Havanaspecifically on Aguacate Street, between O’Reilly and San Juan de Dios.
Sources consulted by CubaNet They said two unidentified men broke into the victim’s home and shot him.
“Two guys came and shot him. He went to get a machete and they shot him again, but they didn’t hit him,” said a friend of the deceased, who asked not to be named.
After the altercation, Mayeta Calderín, known by the nickname “Cosuro”, was transferred to the Calixto Garcia Hospitalwhere he died. Although the shot did not pierce any organs, the young man suffered complications that became irreversible.
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