Santo Domingo.-A man killed two civilians and injured at least four police officers during a shootout this Thursday night with police officers in an incident that occurred on Eugenio A. Miranda street in the Villa Pereyra sector, Guaymate alley in the province. The Roman.
Later another police officer was reported injured, bringing the number of people injured by the attacker to six. According to data, he stripped an agent of his bulletproof vest.
The spokesman for police, Diego Pesqueira, confirmed that there are multiple injuries and reported that “tactical units” will be intervening in the place. The injured police officers were taken to the Fiallo Cabral Hospital in La Romana.
The murderer is barricaded in a pension with a weapon in his hand, according to witnesses to the event and videos circulating on social networks. According to data, the shots began around 5:00 in the afternoon, and were generated by a man identified as Daniel Guerrero, who works as a cabinetmaker and lives in the same place.
The governor of La Romana, Jacqueline Fernández Brito, confirmed the number of dead and wounded.
In one of the videos it can be seen how two wounded agents leave the premises where the attacker is entrenched shooting.
The first of them was wounded in the head and the second in a lower part, which crawled out of the place. Both were rescued by other police officers who were at the door of the home also shooting and riding in the back of a police van.