Justice decreed preventive prison for Patricio lemus, a man accused of the crime of a woman that occurred during the first days of December in Maipú.
Lemus was arrested yesterday by Carabineros and also, according to the investigation of the Western Prosecutor’s Office, he would be the true target of the shooting that on December 22 left a woman dead in Maipú Square.
The defendant, 19 years old, was formalized today for the homicide of a woman occurred on December 6 in the same commune.
That day, Lemus would have come with other people to the outside of a house to shoot, killing the woman and wounding a man. This individual repelled the shots, leaving tetraplegic and life-threatening one of the attackers.
Lemus presents background for attempted robbery, robbery with violence, robbery by surprise, theft of vehicle accessories, reception, attack against authority and theft.
The objective of the shooting
As we have already mentioned, according to the investigation of the fatal shooting that occurred on December 22 in Maipú Square, Lemus was the real target of the shots.
This fact is investigated as a reckoning between gangs belonging to the San Luis population and linked to drug trafficking.
The day of the shooting, Lemus he walked with his stepbrother Piero Ubilla among the street vendors in the sector. The latter was injured in the shoulder.
Lemus appears linked to at least three homicides occurred during the last time, including the aforementioned. They are also working to determine if he participated in the death of Carlos Veloso, known as “El Cazuela”, who was killed by 18 shots in another probable reckoning.
Therefore, in the investigation of the Western Prosecutor’s Office, a line of investigation has been established that close to those deceased They are behind what happened on December 22.
In this case, there are still no detainees accused of participating directly in the shooting and only one person who was surprised has been captured. driving the used car in the shooting.
