Death right around the corner
Dec 13th, 2007, 09:32 pm
Today at around 1 p.m. a police officer shot a man to death. According to La Nación, the guy that was killed robbed a fabrics store with a gun and attempted to flee by motorcycle. He died on the spot. His accomplice, on the other hand, was hit by the same bullet and survived and was taken to the hospital.
This happened less than a hundred meters away from my apartment building.
I didn’t hear any shots, but my host mom told me what had occurred after she returned from grocery shopping.
After watching the news coverage of the event, I was tempted to walk to the scene to see the hullabaloo and take pictures. I decided against that because I thought that was pretty low of me to even think of looking for the covered body so that I could have some interesting visuals for this post.
More than eight hours later, the streets are unblocked, and everything is back to normal.
While I’m still on the topic of death, a young man in his late 20s that lived next door passed away a few days ago after a long bout of testicular cancer. I never saw him, but my host mom told me how he lost 40 kilos over the past year and a half due to his illness and suffered greatly.
Hopefully he’s in a better place.