The Regional Attorney’s Office of Santiago clarified this Saturday that the death of the inmate José Miguel Reyes Carrascowhich occurred yesterday Friday at the Mao Correction and Rehabilitation Center (CCR), is not linked to the attempted violence registered hours before in the same prison.
The regional attorney general, Juan Carlos Bircanreported that, in accordance with the preliminary reports“it is about two differentiated issues that apparently have no relationship with each other.”
However, he indicated that both events remain under investigation to delve into what happened.
During a routine inspection carried out on Friday afternoon, the authorities received information that a prisoner had a homemade gun.
That alert generated a attempted violencewhich was controlled around 4:00 pm In the middle of the incident, an inmate was injured after being shot with blank bullets.
He prisoner was identified as Randy Natanael Compréswho was later transferred to the El Pinito Rehabilitation Center, in La Vegawhere he was taken into custody.
According to subsequent searches, Comprés was seized of several metal objects extracted from a sheet known as tola, used to manufacture aluminum windows, which were allegedly converted into bladed weapons.
death of inmate
Prosecutor Bircan explained that, around 8:00 at night on Friday, a different event occurred that ended with the death of the inmate José Miguel Reyes Carrasco31 years old, who, according to the prison’s version, slipped while bathing and hit his head.
Reyes Carrasco was transferred to Regional Hospital Ing. Luis L. Bogaertwhere it arrived no vital signs and was pronounced dead at 8:10 pm, according to the medical report.
Research continues
“About that, there are two differentiated issues…What is the essence of the process is that we are investigating both cases for determine everything what happened,” said Bircan.
At the same time, he reiterated that, for the moment, there is no evidence that the death of the prisoner is linked to the attempted violence happened hours before.
