On Sunday afternoon, a shootout inside the Sótero del Río Hospital, in the Puente Alto district, resulted in a wounded gendarme and a life-threatening inmate. This, after the inmate snatched the weapon from the official.
The inmate of the Preventive Detention Center (CDP) was urgently transferred to the hospital compound to be treated as a result of a stab wound he received in the prison where he is serving preventive detention for the crime of robbery with intimidation.
in conversation with Cooperativethe Metropolitan General Director of the Gendarmerie, Álvaro Rivera, commented that the inmate was being discharged, when “in an attitude of surprise” he pounced on the person in charge of his custody, “managing to snatch his service weapons.”
The inmate fires “a shot that hit the official in the left foot, continuing with a struggle”, before executing “a subsequent shot that hits the inmate’s face”, which keeps him in vital risk in the same assistance center.
The gendarme was taken to the Carabineros Hospital to be treated and checked for minor injuries to his left foot. As for the inmate, the PDI reported that the subject died, which had to be corroborated by a “communication error” with the facility, confirming his life-threatening situation.
The Homicide Brigade carries out the expert opinion and investigations of the event, which includes review of the security cameras of the hospital compound and registration of witnesses, where some of them maintain that the inmate was not handcuffed while he was discharged.
