Family alleges police prevented surgery on man who died in Santiago
A relative of Edward de Jesús Pérez Silverio accuses the National Police of interrupting surgery after a confrontation on Circunvalación Norte in Santiago.
Family accuses police of preventing operation on man injured in confrontation in Santiago
A relative of Edward de Jesús Pérez Silverio, alias "Carlos" or "Coco", reported to hoy.com.do that the National Police interrupted a surgical procedure that was to be performed on the man after he was wounded in a confrontation on Circunvalación Norte in Santiago. Pérez Silverio, 36 years old, subsequently died.
Luis Silverio recounted that he received a call at approximately 5:00 in the morning on Friday to inform him of the incident. According to his account, the injured man was transferred to a hospital where the process to operate on him had already begun, but agents interrupted the procedure.
"He was injured and they were already going to do the surgical procedure, and the police didn't want to and they finished him off, as they say", Silverio stated. He also questioned the authorities for alleging they needed a warrant to permit the operation.
The National Police, for their part, reported that Pérez Silverio died as a result of injuries sustained during the confrontation. The institution clarified that the man had multiple arrest warrants for murder, aggravated homicide, robberies and alleged links to drug trafficking.
According to the police report, the two men killed were sought for their participation in several violent incidents: the murder of Jesús María Cabrera Peña, the double homicide of Heidy María Gabriela and Ángelo Benjamín Hernández Rodríguez—alias "Tres Pies"—and the death of two police officers in the Bermúdez district. They were also linked to an armed robbery.
The investigations further connected the licence plate of a Changan jeepeta to a vehicle used on 25 October by four armed and masked men in a robbery at a commercial establishment in Tamboril. The owner of the vehicle, identified as Santos Sosa, was under investigation for alleged logistical participation in that incident.
At the scene of the confrontation, the authorities seized two pistols, magazines and ammunition, a silencer, two bulletproof vests, balaclavas, gloves and a GPS signal jammer. They also found four packets of a rocky substance allegedly crack cocaine and 34 nine-millimetre shell casings.
The Scientific Police processed the scene in the presence of the Public Ministry. The bodies were sent to the National Institute of Forensic Sciences (Inacid) for the corresponding procedures.
Source: Google News CL — Santiago