San Pedro de Macorís.- An alleged criminal wanted for the commission of different criminal acts was killed yesterday, Sunday, when he confronted the police officers who were following him with the aim of arresting him, in the Los Maestros sector of the municipality of Consuelo, in this city. .
This is El Capó or 42, 37 years old, who lived in the aforementioned municipality, who died while receiving medical care at a local health center.
According to the preliminary report, police officers assigned to the Southeast Regional Subdirectorate of Criminal Investigations (Dicrim), while carrying out arduous intelligence and surveillance work, located the suspect in the aforementioned municipality, who proceeded to arrest him.
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A note provided by the communication and strategies department of the Southeast regional, states that after noticing the police presence, instead of stopping and surrendering to the authorities, he attacked the agents with a firearm that he was carrying at that time, who They found themselves in the urgent need to respond to said aggression, causing the injuries that later caused his death.
After the confrontation, “el Capó o 42” was seized with a Taurus PT 92 pistol, caliber 9mm, illegible series, with a magazine and three capsules for it, which he carried without any type of documentation and which he used to confront the acting agents.