FILE | Francisco Castillo | UNO Agency
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A deceased man left a attempted vehicle theft by the method of the encerrona in the commune of Santiago.
In the afternoon of this Monday, a passenger transport driver was mobilizing through the Central Highway heading north, when arriving at the Balmaceda exit, its passengers noticed the suspicious attitude of two other cars.
The suspects tried to cut off the affected person with the clear intention of stealing the vehicle, for which the alleged victim performed an evasive maneuver.
It was in this scenario that the person who was going to be the victim of the robbery ended up running over a man in a street situation who was crossing in an unauthorized crossing of the highway, who, due to the severity of his injuries, died on the spot.
It was the victim himself who declared part of what happened, where he added that when he tried to evade the assailants, he did not manage to stop the march of his vehicle.
The specialized team of the SIAT of Carabineros He worked to clarify the alleged causes of what happened, according to Captain Sebastián Undurraga, a patrol officer for the Central Prefecture.
The man who was going to be the victim of the theft of his private vehicle, remained at the disposal of the prosecutor on duty as a detainee, due to his responsibility in the run over resulting in the death of the person on the street. All this pending the investigation and the conclusions of the Public Ministry.
After seeing the theft of the vehicle frustrated, the assailants fled in an unknown direction, without any clue being found so far.
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