Jaén, (EFE).- The National Police is investigating whether the agent who died yesterday in Andújar (Jaén), in an event in which a man who attacked the agents was also killed, lost his life due to a random shot from a colleague while he was struggling with the alleged assailant.
The sub-delegate of the Government in Jaén, Catalina Madueño, has indicated this Monday that it will be the expert and forensic reports that determine the causes of the death of the national police officer.
Madueño, who has assisted in Marmolejo -the natural locality of the deceased policeman- at the neighborhood concentration at the gates of the City Hall, has indicated that “until all the reports are in” the reason for the agent’s death cannot be determined.
waiting for the autopsy
Police sources have detailed to EFE that, pending the results of the autopsy and ballistics analysis, the main hypothesis is that the agent who was struggling with the assailant armed with a knife and a hammer accidentally fired his weapon. which he carried in his left hand.
This can be seen in some of the videos broadcast through social networks recorded by neighbors from their windows. From the moment that around ten o’clock in the morning the attacker begins to knock on the door of a residential building. In Las Monjas de Andújar street due to a dispute and before the police arrive.
When a National Police car arrives, one of the agents – the co-driver – gets out of the vehicle. The assailant heads towards him and as he runs backwards he trips and falls to the ground. While he holds the extendable defense in his right hand and the regulation weapon in his left. That he had previously mounted, according to the sources.
It is then that the gun is fired and the “stray” bullet presumably hits his partner. That he was going to his aid and that he was initially seriously injured.
sequence recorded by neighbors
Meanwhile, and according to the sequence recorded by witnesses from their homes, the agent whose weapon was fired and who had fallen to the ground, receives a knife in the back. And a hammer blow to the head by the attacker.
He is rescued by some neighbors and manages to get up from the ground badly injured while the attacker is shot down. Although the sources consulted have not specified whether it was this policeman who finally shot him or other agents who came to the scene.
The injured agent is admitted to the Andújar hospital. While the partner with a bullet impact at the height of the abdomen died at the health center. Where he is transferred by his companions in a police vehicle already in cardiorespiratory arrest. EFE