The city of Quillota, in Chilewas the scene of a serious homicide that shocked the residents of the town belonging to the region of Valparaiso. The victim is a man who He won a million dollars after playing the lotterybut when he went to withdraw the money from the bank he was approached by three armed criminals who took his life with a shot to the leg. The victim’s nephew confessed to having been the “intellectual author” of the robbery, motivated by an alleged economic need.
The identity of the victim was not revealed: he is a 52-year-old man who purchased a lottery ticket and won the jackpot in October 2023.
On February 6, 2024, he went to a bank in Rancagua with his partner and his 21-year-old nephew to withdraw part of the prize, $30,000. What the victim did not suspect was that his own nephew had planned a robbery in collaboration with three accomplices.
The man withdrew the cash and when he returned in his car, he was surprised by three armed criminals, who demanded the immediate delivery of the money.
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The victim refused, tried to defend himself as best he could and He struggled with one of the attackers, who shot him in the leg. The criminals ended up escaping with the money, while the victim, who had a serious hemorrhage, bled and died at the scene, without suspecting that a relative of his had planned the sequence of the robbery, which due to fortuitous circumstances ended in greater misfortune.
The investigation found that the nephew was the mastermind of the assaultand that he conspired against his uncle by “hiring” three criminals, willing to execute the plan to distribute the millionaire prize among them.
Local police sources stressed that the young man He was aware that his uncle had won the lottery and that that day he was going to withdraw the moneykey information that he would have given to his accomplices to appropriate the sum of dollars.
The plan failed due to the struggle that led to the murder of the victim.
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The police managed to arrest the nephew and one of the suspects, while the remaining two remain for the moment. escapees.
Those arrested were charged with the crime of robbery with homicide.
The intellectual author of the events, nephew of the victim, acknowledged his participation and alleged that he carried out his chilling plan out of an alleged economic need.
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Meanwhile, some neighbors who knew the victim regretted the events and recalled that the man maintained a good relationship with the neighborhood in general.
They even revealed a supportive side of the murdered man, after stating that I had shared part of the prize with themto help them pay their debts or purchase food.
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