In the middle of an OS-7 operation for drug trafficking in Central Stationa police officer used his service weapon against an alleged criminal, leaving him at risk of life this Wednesday night.
While uniformed officers raided homes, a group of antisocials fled through the roofsbut he encountered police personnel on the street Mazotte bull with the Alameda.
According to preliminary information from Carabineros, The uniformed officer shot when he saw that the man was proceeding to take out a firearm.but once his belongings were checked it was found that I didn’t carry one.
He Colonel Fernando Albornoz of the Central Prefecture indicated that the police «fires a shot at the subject, who falls in the same place and after being assisted, is transferred to a healthcare center in the same community«.
According to the officer, the police officer shot «in self-defense, product of the act itself of the arrest; «Whether the incident was legitimate defense or not will be a matter of investigation, but I want to clarify that the police officer is not a defendant.»
Personnel from Labocar and OS-9 of Carabineros carry out the first proceedings in this case.