Violence: a retired police officer was murdered in a robbery in Barracas

A retired federal policeman was killed by three shots tonight when he resisted the entry of three criminals into his home in the Buenos Aires neighborhood Tents, which he had arrived in his car with his wife, according to security forces sources.

The incident happened around 8:30 p.m. at the corner of California and Río Limay streets, in said district of the southern part of the city of Buenos Aires.

Force spokespersons informed Telam that a Retired non-commissioned officer of the Argentine Federal Police (PFA) He had arrived with his wife at the door of their house in a black Volkswagen Fox and, when exiting the vehicle, was intercepted by at least three armed criminals for theft.

Under these circumstances, the former policeman began to fight with the attackers to prevent them from entering his home. According to what was reported by the sources, the retired NCO extracted a .38 caliber revolver he was carrying, after which a gunshot was heard, the upward trajectory of which hit the head of the man and caused his death almost immediately in the hallway of the property. . Relatives of the victim assured that the murdered policeman had been shot three times.

The attackers fled the scene on foot and in a few minutes the troops of the Argentine Naval Prefecture (PNA), competent in the region, and the municipal police arrested three suspects, two men and a woman.

However, the sources consulted indicated that the national penal and correctional prosecutor’s office 1, headed by Pablo Recchini, had at the time adopted no legal temperament with regard to the three delayed, for lack of being able to count on constituent elements of a crime on the part of the suspects.

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