A retired Federal police officer killed this Tuesday a 20-year-old young man who had tried to assault him in the Buenos Aires district of Avellaneda, along with an accomplice who fled. According to police sources, the incident occurred at 12:51 on Arredondo Street, between Sarmiento and Anatole France, when the former police officer shot at two people who, according to him, jumped on his car.
When officers from the district police station located in the southern part of the suburbs arrived at the scene of the incident, they found a young man lying on the asphalt, with an entrance hole in the top of his skull. In addition, the police observed a gray Peugeot 408 car there that had several bullet wounds on your windshield.
When he was assaulted, the former police officer responded from inside the vehicle with his 9-millimeter Taurus PT 92 weapon.
The 55-year-old man who shot is a police officer retired man who said that two young men jumped up and pointed guns at him, so he He stopped the march, responded from inside the vehicle with his Taurus PT 92 9-millimeter caliber weapon and wounded one of them. Then he fired another shot, it is assumed that it was aimed at the other young man, who escaped. The man finally got out of the car, kicked the murdered robber’s gun and called 911.
The retired police officer’s claims found support in a video filmed by a security camerain which you can see how, with a rapid reaction, land shoots a young man dressed in a red t-shirt who would have aimed at him with a gun. The accomplice who fled cannot be seen, but it was recorded how After 5 minutes the girlfriend of the murdered young man arrives on the scene. and, in his pain, he tries to fight the man.
An ambulance from SAME went to the scene and found that the young man was dead and then He was identified as Franco Ariel Bordón, 20 years old, with admissions to Avellaneda police stations for different criminal acts and with a registered address a few blocks from the place. of his death. The case was classified for the moment “attempted robbery and homicide” and was in charge of the Functional Instruction Unit number 4 of Avellaneda and the 6th Police Station. from the same district. According to the journalist Mauro Setathe prosecutor gave rise to self-defense.
A gendarme was convicted of murdering a teenager who tried to rob him
A gendarme was sentenced to 19 years in prison today for killing a 15-year-old teenager in March 2021 in Rosario, Santa Fe, during an incident of insecurity. Is about Hector Daniel Rivaswhom judges Gonzalo López Quintana, Carlos Leiva and Lorena Aronne found guilty of the crime of aggravated homicide by use of a firearm against Facundo Veróna teenager who tried to rob him along with another minor.
It was March 7, 2021 when The victim and a companion broke the glass of Rivas’s Peugeot 208 for criminal purposes and the gendarme, upon seeing what was happening, went out to chase them. For three blocks the member of the force tried to capture them and was at 5500 Buenos Aires Street when he got out of the car, he noted, he shot the teenager in the back and, before escaping, grabbed the served podas detailed in the trial.
Tension on the 25 de Mayo Highway: the Police engaged in a shootout with three suspects in a car
With the collection of testimonies and security cameras, Rivas was arrested at his home, where a 9-millimeter Beretta and a Glock of the same caliber were seized, in addition to the vehicle in question. The trial began on March 14 and, after more than 10 days of debatethe judges concluded that the gendarme was guilty of the murder.
“We have to make it clear that This is not a case of institutional violence, it is not a case of trigger-happy beyond the fact that it is a gendarme. He was not carrying out his duties,” said prosecutor Adrián Spelta.
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