The Ministry of the Interior reported this Sunday about the arrest of two people allegedly involved in the shooting that took place last Thursday in Central Havana, where a woman and a man who were fleeing a “settling of scores” were seriously injured.
The detainees were identified as Lázaro Reynier Valiente Mejías, 34, and Yordany Poyeaux Pozo, 26. In a statement, the institution said that they were able to locate the suspects thanks to witnesses who contacted the police headquarters to notify them that the subjects were hiding in a house in the Callejones neighborhood, in the municipality of Arroyo Naranjo.
The Government acknowledged that what happened caused consternation on social networks where citizens “expressed their concern because events like these are not common in Cuba.” In his statement, released by the official press, he assured that no resources or schedules were spared to find the “whereabouts of the authors and they will clarify what happened without impunity.”
The authorities initially handled that the shooting, which occurred on Consulado street, between Ánimas and Trocadero, Centro Habana, originated when the subjects were chasing a 37-year-old man who was seriously injured.
In the confrontation, the director of the Raíces Profundas folkloric company, Idolidia Ramos, was also injured, who “had nothing to do with the dispute,” said the Ministry of the Interior.
The Government acknowledged that what happened caused consternation on social networks where citizens “expressed their concern because events like these are not common in Cuba.”
He influencers Edmundo Dantés Junior published the testimony of a girl who was in the educational center and who reported that the choreographer “was operated on urgently, as a bullet pierced her intestine”, but is currently out of danger.
“The victims of this unfortunate event continue to be cared for by specialized health personnel, with permanent monitoring of the evolution,” added the Ministry of the Interior.
This Sunday the death of Luis Miguel Bartoló Tamayo, the ambulance driver who was shot at by a police officer on January 5 on Paseo Street, between 1 and 2 West, Guantanamo. Bartoló Tamayo was seriously injured and for the last four months he was in intensive care at the Agostinho Neto General Hospital, where he was basically kept alive by artificial ventilation.
Friends and family confirmed his death on social media. According to pointed outBartoló Tamayo was diagnosed with left diaphragmatic paralysis due to the gunshot wound.
In the attack, Damaris Rodríguez Domínguez, a young specialist doctor from the Francisco Castro Ceruto Polyclinic, in the municipality of El Salvador, died, who would have been the target of the police officer. At that time, the provincial newspaper overcome He described the event as a “crime of passion”.
Although what happened generated outrage, the police authorities have not provided more details about the arrest of the policeman or if he has faced a conviction process.
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