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The PNC shared details of the armed attack that was recorded in the La Florida neighborhood, zone 19.
Researchers next to the Picop that was recorded during armed attack in the La Florida neighborhood. Zone 19. (Free Press Photo: Esbin García)
Surveillance cameras captured on Tuesday, March 25, the moment An armed attack was recorded in the La Florida neighborhood, zone 19 of the capital.
The municipal firefighters attended the emergency and reported that a man died in the incident and another was injured.
The situation, in the midst of transit, was tense, because the videos revealed how a subject who moved in Picop was shot to death, while one of the hitmen lost his life.
The National Civil Police (PNC) indicated in its report that the incident occurred in the 5th. Avenue and 2nd. Calle de la Colonia La Florida, zone 19.
The wounded man was identified as Marco Antonio Mérida Araujo, 36, an entrepreneur of the Marblería sector, said the PNC report.
The institution added that the victim was driven at Picop P-777HWK when he was intercepted by two individuals aboard the M-830FQB motorcycle.
“The injured bodyguard repelled the attack, dying one of the perpetrators in the place, the other perpetrator fled,” said the police report.
Abandoned motorcycle
The PNC added that the M-830FQB motorcycle, in which the aggressors were mobilized, is solvent. The deceased aggressor was not identified.
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