A new act of insecurity with a person shot left as a balance a 17-year-old boy who is fighting for his life following an assault that occurred in the Los Álamos neighborhood, in the northeast of the Capital.
According to what was reported by a neighbor in the area, this Sunday night he was walking with a friend through the streets of that neighborhood when the criminal surprised them to steal a bicycle. It happened in Parravicini street at 3,580.
Insecurity in Cordoba
This Tuesday, the mother of the shot boy spoke and recounted the dramatic moment in which he was assaulted, how he and his friends reacted.
”He was with friends to go shopping to eat, because they get together on Sundays to eat at night. They drink juice or soda. And well, they were going to buy, they were on the sidewalk, they were doing the best. And along the cycle path of the avenue he saw a guy but they never imagined that he was going to cross them, ”started his story in Miter 810.
And then he recounted the most tense moment before the tragedy: “At that moment they, like all adolescents, do not give things to them and well, the guy shot him first and asked for things, he told him that he was not going to give anything and hits him with a punch. The guy staggered back, the same anger that they weren’t going to give him things, he was shooting at him, he fired two shots at him. One hit the floor and the other hit him under the ribs.
Moved and crying before that means reliving the moment, she added: “At that moment he did not feel anything, he says that in a little while he began to feel heat and it faded. But among all the friends they began to run him, the guy grabbed and runs away.
The testimony of the other mother of the boy who was unharmed in the assault
Miriam, the mother of the boy who was unharmed in the assault, told Arriba Córdoba, on ElDoce.tv, that her son’s friend “turned around so they wouldn’t steal his bike.” At that moment the thief drew the gun and pulled the trigger. “He threw my son but he hit the ground,” he commented and added: “Tomás threw his hand so he wouldn’t take the bike away from him.”
The woman also explained that her son ran to get help and the thief chased him. “We need that if someone saw something, a camera or something, that they help us because he is in serious condition,” she said regarding the health of the teenager who was shot.
As he specified, the bullet “perforated the pancreas, a part of the liver, the walls of the stomach and the lung” in Tomás. For these hours he remains hospitalized in the Elpidio Torres hospital with a respirator.
“The boys can no longer go out on the street. They are two kids who play soccer, they don’t go out to parties,” Miriam lamented. And she concluded: “The only thing my son wants is for them to catch the thief because Tomás is like his brother. They are together all the time.”
