They assassinated a retired policeman who resisted a robbery in Morón

Wednesday around midnight, A cash withdrawn from the Argentine Federal Police was shot dead when confronted with four criminals who assaulted him when he was returning home after shopping at a store in the Buenos Aires district of Morón.

For the crime of the retired chief petty officer Ángel Atilio López were later arrested four suspects: two 15-year-old adolescents, another 16 and a young man of 21.

The fact It happened around 11:45 p.m. in Castelli and Acha, in Morón, when López got out of his Renault Sandero Stepway after buying cigarettes and was intercepted by the assailants, who got out of a Peugeot 405.

The cash was identified and resisted the theft of his car with a weapon he was carrying. There, a shooting began with the gang in which at least 15 shots were fired. López received two bullets and fell to the ground, while the thieves re-boarded the Peugeot car and escaped.

The retired cop He received an impact on the thorax and another on his left leg, and died when he was transferred by neighbors to the Morón hospital. Meanwhile, the four suspects were later intercepted through a bolt-action operation. Aboard the Peugeot, they were trying to enter the Villa Palito settlement in the La Matanza district.

One of the three detained minors, aged 15, was wounded by a bullet in the chest, for which he was taken to the Balestrini hospital in Ciudad Evita, where he was admitted with police custody out of danger, spokesmen said.

During the arrest operation, the troops were attacked by inhabitants of the settlement who tried to rescue the suspects. In that place, the vehicle in which the assailants were mobilizing, which had several bullet wounds, was also hijacked.

This Thursday morning, a neighbor told TN that he heard between “15 and 16 shots” and that “it was a shooting, impressive. Other neighbors came out to see what happened and the man was lying on the sidewalk, he was a neighbor of the neighborhood ”.

Three of the detainees are at the Morón prosecutor’s office to declare the next few hours while the injured teenager remains in police custody.

The case is in charge of the Prosecutor for Juvenile Criminal Responsibility 1 of Morón, in charge of prosecutor Gabriel Iturri, who ordered expertise in the kidnapped car and in the weapons of the retired policeman and the detainees, and ordered the kidnapping of the footage from the security cameras in the area.

At the moment, the file is titled “aggravated robbery due to attempted use of a firearm, homicide criminis causa and carrying a weapon for civilian use ”.

Prosecutor Iturri was waiting for the results of the autopsy and expert opinions on the scene to determine the number of shots that were fired in the confrontation and how many were fired with each of the seized weapons.

The 15-year-old adolescents were already dismissed from the case because due to their age they are unimpeachable and were housed in an institute, while Iturri requested the arrest of the judge of guarantees for the 16-year-old.

Sources added to Telam that the victim joined the Federal Police in 1974 and served at police station 44, until 2001, and from that year until his retirement in 2010 at section 50.