He injured three people: a guard, the cameraman of a local channel that was broadcasting live, and a splinter hit a third person, but all of them ended up not being life-threatening.
A surprising event generated tension in the early hours of this Monday when a 54-year-old woman who was detained in an operation in the city of Santiago, in Chile, stole the gun from the security officer who was holding it and began shooting at those around him. He injured three people: a guard, the cameraman for a local channel that was broadcasting live and a splinter hit a third personbut they all ended up out of life risk.
The episode was recorded in Lo Valledor Market, one of the largest supply centers in the Chilean capital city. From this day, a security system for entering the business began to be implemented in the place, such as metal detectors and the request for an identity card from buyers.
According to local media Emolthe woman, identified as Mariana Cea Oyarce, He wanted to enter the place with a supermarket cart, something that was prohibited. Outraged, and in the middle of an important police and journalistic operation that recorded the new measures, the aggressor took out a nail file and a nail file from among her belongings. She threatened the guard, who managed to immobilize her.
When the security man had her restrained, the woman took the gun from the holster that she had hanging on her waist and started shooting at random.. Even though she had been pushed into a police van, Cea Oyarce continued to pull the trigger while she took aim around her.
The Carabineros general, Marcelo Lepin, head of the Santiago Oeste Zone, stated that it all began with “a control that is normally carried out at the access to this center.” “When a woman resists this control and pulls out a knife trying to attack the security guard,” he said.
“Due to an oversight by the private security guard, this woman took out the revolver she was carrying and fired a couple of shots, injuring a Chilevisión cameraman, the security guard and a third person.”, added the uniformed man to the local press. Regarding the woman, Lepin pointed out that she was detained “and we are waiting for instructions from the Prosecutor’s Office.”
According to the media Emol, The aggressor has a criminal record, with previous arrests for mistreatment of police officers in construction in 2006 and for theft in a supermarket in 2017..
Source: Ambito
