National Civil Police agent accidentally shoots a minor in Amatitlán

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National Civil Police agent accidentally shoots a minor in Amatitlán

During the afternoon of this Saturday, April 5, around 2:35 p.m. Amatitlán, whose protagonists were an agent of the National Civil Police (PNC) and a 15 -year -old teenager, who ended up with a wound in his arm after receiving a shot from the official.

The family of the minor has already attended the substation of Amatitlán to request the immediate arrest of the police officer; However, the National Civil Police ensures that the procedure cannot be done until the element ends its turn.

Given this situation, several people began to join the outskirts of the substation to protest against this event.

According to the father of the injured child, both moved in a motorcycle When the police officer asked them to stop.

“He made us the high signal but already brought the visible weapon. When we stopped on the main road to the colony Altos de la Cruz, The weapon was shot at the PNC agent, “added the father of the child, who is currently at the Amatitlán hospital.

PNC agent shoots a minor

After the PNC agent shot the young man in the arm, his father took him to the Amatitlán hospital, and then gather his relatives and go to demand the dismissal of the agent identified as Edin Mauricio Andrés Vásquezwho was in an operation.

After the arrival of the minor’s relatives to the headquarters of the PNC, the agents riotmotinesAmatitlán’s substation arrived to contain the crowd.

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According to the National Civil Police, the adolescent injured by the agent will be admitted to the hospital because he has a fracture, product of the bullet, in the left cubito of his arm and will have to receive plates, screws, nails and wires to fix and stabilize his fractured bones.

As reported, the hospital does not have the material to make a osteosynthesis, The surgical technique consisting of the union of fractured bone fragments, so it will have to move to another medical center to be operated.

Riot on the outskirts of the substation of the PNC in Amatitlán. (Free Press Photo: Courtesy)

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