The police community does not come out of astonishment for the macabre scene that occurred a few days ago at the Ciénaga de Oro station, Córdoba, where a patrolman murdered his superior with his staff weapon.
“Bruno arrives late for the formation and as my chief mayor Portillo is the second in command there, and also that he has his character and began to claim him and all that and Bruno shot him and killed him”, this is one of the audios to which SEMANA had access and which is from one of the policemen who tells his colleagues how the crime took place inside the Police station.
In another audio, another uniformed man says: “That happened like this, Subintendent Portillo is the deputy commander of the station and a little comrade there who shot him and then killed himself, two 901s there.”
In the conversations, another police officer is heard shocked by what happened and almost in tears recounting what happened, “two colleagues have just been killed here at the station, I’m sick, my blood pressure is high.”
The events occurred as follows, according to witnesses to the event. Patrolman Bruno Zapa Leodan would not have resisted the claim made by his superior for having arrived late to the formation and with his endowment weapon he attacked him, taking the life of the chief quartermaster César Portillo Tamayo.
SEMANA learned regarding the video where the Uniformed comrades take one of them out of the station loaded in a serious state of health and put him in a patrol car to try to save his life, but he finally dies.
The distressing scene shows eight police officers carrying the injured man to load him onto the bed of the truck with registration number 0462, which with sirens on, begins the journey to the nearest medical center.
After the tragic incident, Police sources indicated that the respective internal investigations were initiated to determine what happened in this case.
Some patrolmen of the institution At the national level, they have communicated with SEMANA to indicate that serious mental health problems are occurring within the institution. Some would be associated with the decisions that have been been taking inside the security entity.
Some uniformed officers recalled the recent case of the patrol car that committed suicide inside a Prosecutor’s office in Bogotá. It was the case of 22-year-old Ludy Marcela Granados Arias. The uniformed young woman left a meeting with her superiors, arrived at her workplace and with the endowment weapon attempted once morest her.
At the time, according to the information collected by the Police Sijín, the patrol car died inside the headquarters of the Unit for Crimes once morest Public Faith of the Prosecutor’s Office, in the Manuel Gaona building located at Carrera 33 with Calle 18. , following shooting himself inside his office.
The young woman was reviewing cases and instructions during the last minutes before her death, before attending the meeting with her superior. The Police assured that they will rule on the case in the next few hours, while some versions assure that a discussion with her superior would have been the cause of the young woman deciding to take her own life.
another suicide
Only two weeks ago the case of another patrolman in Cartagena who was found hanged at his home.
The Metropolitan Police of Cartagena reported on the discovery of the lifeless body of patrolman Iván Darío Robles Corrales. According to the institution, the body was found at regarding 6:50 pm in the uniformed man’s house.
