A man of Colombian nationality was arrested after witnesses to the homicide recognized him as the perpetrator.
Early this Sunday, October 13, a man was murdered while his cell phone was stolen steps from Plaza Italia in the Metropolitan Region.
According to police records, It was after 6:00 in the morning when Carabineros received a complaint that spoke of a person dying from a knife injury at the intersection of Avenida Libertador Bernardo O’Higgins and Irene Morales.
However, when Carabineros arrived at the scene, no trace of the victim was found, who had already been transferred to the former Posta Central with a wound in the chest, at the level of the heart.
That is why police officials began to carry out identity checks, realizing that a man of Colombian nationality had a knife and two cell phones that did not belong to him, Therefore, the foreign citizen was detained.
After the arrest, Carabineros confirmed that The victim died minutes after entering the hospital.
Along with this, the two companions of the man who was murdered in Plaza Italia recognized the Colombian subject who He had been arrested as the perpetrator of the crime.
“They were at a celebration in the Bellavista neighborhood”
The Colonel of Carabineros, Fernando Albornoz, told La Tercera that “it is a group of 20 people that moved on foot through this sector, but it is under investigation whether the group provoked this robbery with violence or within this group alone.” a subject was the one who carried out the robbery and direct assault on the people with the death of one of these”.
He also explained that “lThe people were waiting for collective transportation and that is where these subjects, most of them foreigners, approach with the purpose of stealing their personal belongings and by emitting a little resistance, this altercation and direct aggression against the victims occur.”
“By declaration of the victims, in the first instance They were at a celebration in the Bellavista neighborhood and when they were leaving and they were waiting for collective transportation, all acquaintances and friends of each other, this altercation occurred,” he concluded.