A violent assault with a shooting included took place this Sunday afternoon inside the Plaza Egaña Mall, in the La Reina commune.

According to information from the Carabineros, at about 3:00 p.m. a group of eight to ten armed criminals dressed in white overalls entered a MacOnline store to commit the crime.

General Marcelo Lepin, head of the Santiago Oriente Zone, reported that a police officer in his capacity as an off-duty police officer found himself “face-on” with the crime, when he was doing paperwork in the mall with his family.

It reported that the police officer "managed to thwart this robbery, hitting at least one or two of these antisocials with his private weapon, who fled in an unknown direction."

"Fortunately, the officer observed that anyone who had nothing to do with this antisocial gang did not cross the line of fire," he stressed.

In addition, Lepin stressed that the service personnel "quickly came to cooperate with this officer, and in addition, we activated our specialized services with the air prefecture to monitor from the air and locate this band of antisocials."

He explained that the thieves were traveling in two vehicles and that they threw miguelitos onto the road during their escape. "We do not have the count of whether or not they took a number of species," he noted.

Finally, the general commented that “now comes the investigative line. With these injured that if they arrive at a care center, plus the work of the cameras, they can give a good result ”. No arrests have been reported at this time.

Ana María Silva, a journalist for the morning Tu Día on Channel 13, was inside the store during the incident. “At the moment we were about to pay, we felt that people fell to the ground. We had to get behind the cash registers and we saw that many criminals began to enter, many people in white overalls, with weapons, ”she narrated.

The victim indicated that the individuals entered the warehouses "with very large bags" and broke the glass partitions. In addition, she stated that she was struck by the fact that the subjects were wearing communicators and that they had not taken objects such as iPhones or watches. “They left quickly and it is because they surely realized that the Carabineros were on their way,” she stated.

Source : https://biorednoticias.cl/2023/01/carabinero-de-franco-disparo-a-delincuentes-durante-robo-en-mall-plaza-egana/