It happened when four people tried to assault a driver of a transport app
By
Cristián Torresfrom Santiago, Chile
Officials from the Investigative Police (PDI) took charge of the investigation to gather more information on this incident.
A woman died in Chile after receiving a stray bullet while walking towards your home. The weapon would have been struck by a group of criminals who assaulted a driver of a transport application.
The incident occurred in the city of Santiago de Chile , in the commune of El Bosque, when a group of four subjects intimidated a driver of a transport application who was finishing her journey. The first details indicate that the criminals would have fired into the air, giving one of these shots against the victim, a 58-year-old woman who had nothing to do with the robbery.
The victim was walking home from work when he was shot.Although this impact has been cataloged in Chile as “a crazy bullet”, the husband of the deceased, Carlos Lizana, has another interpretation of the events that occurred.
“We are not talking about a crazy bullet, we are talking about assassins who kill people. This exceeded all limits. Innocent people continue to die and the criminal is on the street. And we, who are workers, have us cornered in our homes. The worst of all is that they are minors. They cut short our lives: as a couple, as a mother, as a husband. It’s terrible”, Lizana said.
According to the news portal Emol.com, the subjects who participated in this event “ they fled with the stolen vehicle” but were “captured by Carabineros” after they hit the machine with an electric pole. Three of the criminals are minors, one of them is 13 years old and they were taken to a police station in the community of El Bosque after the car accident.
So far, the Homicide Brigade and the Robbery Brigade of the Chilean Investigative Police are gathering more information to clarify this case. Meanwhile, the driver victim of the theft of his vehicle escaped unharmed.
Lockdowns and crazy bullets
Tamara Moya, the minor who died in a carjacking in Chile.
Lock-ups and crazy bullets are one of the many problems that are affecting public security in Chile. The problem is so recurrent that the police have had to recommend a series of measures to the community to protect themselves of these events that have spread to much of the country.
Among the most shocking cases left by these two crimes is the case of little 5-year-old Tamara Moya, who was shot dead in 2021 when her mother was the victim of a car theft.
At the end of 2021, Carabineros de Chile revealed that between January 1 and December 19, 5,103 car-related crimes were recorded. In addition, in that year there were 2,863 traps and 2,240 slams. The lockup is a crime that consists of a group of criminals who lock up the path of a driver to steal his vehicle, while the door slam is the theft of cars when the driver leaves or enters his home.
The police study showed that many of these actions were concentrated in six districts of the Metropolitan Region, capital of Chile. 38% of the total cases occurred in the towns of Maipú, Puente Alto, San Bernardo, Pudahuel, Quilicura and Santiago.