Carabineros OS9 personnel detained during the last hours Patricio lemus, a 19-year-old man accused of participating in at least one homicide and who would have been the target of the shooting occurred on December 22 in Maipú Square.
Lemus will be formalized by the crime of a woman in a shooting against a house that occurred during the first days of December, also in Maipú. In the same event, a man repelled the shots, leaving one of the attackers a quadriplegic and at life risk.
The investigation allowed the identification of two other defendants. One of them is Lemus, who was captured in the center of Santiago and today will go to stop control.
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
According to the investigation of the fatal shooting that occurred on December 22 in Plaza de Maipú, which left ua 59-year-old woman deceased, 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.
For this reason, 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.
This article describes an ongoing legal process
There is a possibility that the charges will be dismissed at the end of the investigation, therefore The accused should NOT be considered as guilty until Justice dictates sentence against him.
(Article 04 of the Code of Criminal Procedure)
