The judge of the Judicial Office of Permanent Attention Services of Santiago postponed this Thursday the hearing of the request for a measure of coercion against the corporal of the National Police, Alejandro Castro Cruzaccused of killing the child last Sunday Donaly Joel Martinez during the carnival celebration of that city.
The audience it was postponed to next Wednesday at 9:00 in the morningafter the Judge Kimberly Tatis accept a request from Castro Cruz’s lawyer, in order to gather and present budgets from his client.
“It has been postponed at the request of the defendant’s technical defense… They They alleged that they do not have the budgets or the roots prepared“said the representative of the victim’s family.
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Upon leaving the court, the head of the Prosecutor’s Office, Osvaldo Bonilla, reiterated that the measure to be imposed should be preventive detention, for a period of one year, because it is a serious act where the accused violated all the proportionality protocols and use of force, and for which the Public Prosecutor’s Office has provisionally classified the act as voluntary manslaughter.
By the fact, the Public ministry requests that the police officer be placed in pretrial detention for 12 months.
According to the prosecution body, the 11-year-old infant and his father Anthony Ysauri Martínez Martínez, shared with other relatives and friends on Mella street almost Las Carreras avenue when the defendant, “in a defiant and aggressive attitude, carrying his visible firearm”, orders to lower the volume of the music and tries to occupy the music box of a vehicle with which they entertained the meeting, for which a witness, attending on command, the horn enters the vehicle.
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However, it refers to the facts, which castro cruz he insists on taking the horn, unleashing an argument in which the victim and father of the adolescent participate, whom the defendant assaults by spraying pepper spray into his eyes.
The discussion continues when, continuing in his violent, defiant and abrupt attitude, the defendant walks away with the horn and for no apparent reason returns and points his tampered weapon at Martínez and when he makes contact with it he shoots, impacting “the left arm and chest of the minor, causing his death.”
The Public Ministry has evidence that demonstrates the criminal responsibility of Castro Cruz, including material, documentary, expert and testimonial evidence.
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Among others, this evidence includes the preliminary autopsy report, issued by the National Institute of Forensic Sciences (Inacif), which determined that “The cause of death of the victim was due to a wound from a firearm projectile, violent death, of homicidal legal medical etiology, hypovolemic shock mechanism.”
