2024-10-07 18:51:41
In addition to the crime of the Carabineros senior non-commissioned officer, the six defendants were individually convicted of other crimes such as robbery with frustrated homicide, perpetrated one day before the fatal shooting; robbery with violence and illegal possession of a weapon.
The Oral Criminal Court (TOP) of Viña del Mar declared the six defendants guilty of the murder of Carabineros senior non-commissioned officer Rita Olivares, occurred in March of last year in the commune of Quilpué.
The uniformed woman was part of a patrol that sought to intervene in a robbery procedure in a home, sThey were attacked with firearms by those involved, who fatally wounded Rita Olivares, who could not even get out of the vehicle.
The defendants were found guilty of murder against the Carabineros, two attempted murders against the Carabineros – in the context of the home robbery – and illegal possession of weapons.
After learning of the court’s resolution, Rita Olivares’ partner, Luis Tapia, told Radio Cooperativa that “we want them to be given what is theirs, to dry out in jail and to never come out again. The good thing is that the six are convicted, and that leaves us a little calmer.”
“It is a very difficult moment, my children had a very hard time with this. To this day, it is difficult to return home and sleep in the same bed I slept with her, the memories in every corner of the house. “It made me tremendously angry when I saw them, I wanted to hit them, to kill them if necessary, because they took away the love of my life,” he said.
In addition to the crime of the Carabineros senior non-commissioned officer, the six defendants were individually convicted of other crimes such as robbery with frustrated homicide, perpetrated one day before the fatal shooting; robbery with violence and illegal possession of a weapon.
The Oral Criminal Court of Viña del Mar will announce the sentence for those convicted, where the Public Ministry gave qualified life imprisonment for each of them.