Man arrested in Cartagena for firing air-rifle pellets towards children's playground
The National Police arrested a man in Cartagena accused of firing from his window towards a park where children were playing. The search uncovered 21 air-powered weapons and three katanas.
Shots from a window force families to seek shelter in Cartagena park
The National Police arrested a man in Cartagena as the alleged perpetrator of attempted assault and public disorder offences after accusing him of firing multiple shots with an air-powered rifle from the window of his home towards a children's park where several children were playing.
The incident occurred in the afternoon of 22 April. According to ABC, the unified emergency telephone line 1-1-2 received successive alert calls from people present in the facility. The seriousness of the shots forced all those present to seek urgent shelter to avoid being hit by the projectiles.
Patrols from the National Police and Local Police were deployed to the scene. Officers took statements from the victims and several witnesses, who confirmed that the shots came from the window of a building adjoining the park. Those present handed the officers several steel pellets collected from the ground.
Subsequent investigation made it possible to fully identify the suspect. Officers established a surveillance operation in the vicinity of his home and proceeded with his arrest.
During the search of the residence, the security forces seized ten long-range air-powered weapons—two of them equipped with telescopic sights—, eleven short-range weapons of the same nature, and three katanas.
In parallel, the National Police had opened a separate investigation against the detainee unconnected with the shooting. The man had previously been reported for an alleged stalking offence, having allegedly made insulting telephone calls to another man repeatedly over several months.
The arrested man was placed at the disposal of the competent judicial authority for the adoption of the corresponding precautionary measures.
Source: ABC