Like many colleagues, the police officer from Buenos Aires tried to earn a few more pesos as a driver for travel applications. He was doing that over the weekend when two young people who got into his car tried to rob him. The agent drew his gun and killed one of them. He was 16 years old and had left a juvenile hall a month ago for robbery.
It all happened in the early hours of Sunday morning on the corner of Martín Coronado and Sudamérica streets Gregorio de Laferrere, La Matanza district.
The attack victim, 25 years old, was on vacation from his job Lomas de Zamora Patrol Command. He was driving his 2013 Chevrolet Cruze to work when he accepted a ride.
When he arrived at the location, he later said, two passengers boarded, but they immediately pointed a gun at him. The officer pulled out his Taurus G3 pistol and fired once. The bullet hit the stomach Isaías Portilla, 16 years old.
The residents of the neighborhood gathered and, out of fear, the agent fired a few shots at the apartment to disperse them. He then walked away and as he walked around the block he saw the two thieves, one of whom fell to the sidewalk. The other ran away.
A few minutes later, a car arrived and took the injured man to the scene of the accident Nestor Kirchner Hospitaljust over two kilometers from the scene of the attack, where he died.
According to the police, it was Portilla arrested on October 1st convicted of the crime: “Serious robbery in a city and in a gang”. A month ago he regained his freedom in a youth center in San Martín.
The case is being investigated by the public prosecutor’s office Claudio Fornarofrom the thematic homicide squad La Matanza, which considered that the officer acted “in legitimate defense. The 1st Sur police station also intervened. from La Matanza.
The relatives of the deceased thief reported about it on social networks “They didn’t help him in the hospital, they let him die.”“.
“They took away the second chance he deserved.. All dreams still have to be fulfilled” wrote one of the teenager’s aunts in an Instagram story.
Additionally, another family member posted: “We will find out who has my brother’s cell phone, the larval shell, etc who left it lying around. To his two supposed friends“.
“Yesterday we were together, we went to Lafe, we ate a hot dog, did that happen now? I don’t know how to move on brother, I’m devastated“added another.
He was also released from Laferreres Futsal League 24, where he played with his number 79 jersey: “Today our club says goodbye to Isaías, a boy who accompanied us throughout his childhood and part of his youth. Rest in peace, we will miss you, Chirola“.
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