A suspected robber who posessed a firearm attempted to steal the phones of two pupils on the way to school. One of the victims fought back and stabbed him to death in Chile
A pair of children allegedly disarmed and killed a man who attempted to rob them at gunpoint on the way to school.
Police were called to the Pedro Aguirre Cerda commune in Chile at around 9am after a man was found suffering from stab wounds on Monday.
The 40-year-old man reportedly approached the two school children, a girl and a boy, on a bike. They reported that he was armed with a gun and knife and had tried to rob their phones at around 9am.
The Public Prosecutor’s Office said that the victims got into a struggle with the man, with one of them snatching the knife off him. The man was stabbed two or three times but managed to get away on his bike. Shortly after he was found lying in the road, authorities said.
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A woman, believed to be one of the victim’s parents, said that her daughter and her boyfriend were attacked, reports Bio Bio Chile. The mother went to the police station to report the crime. She claimed they “had been robbed by a man on a bicycle near the place where the deceased was found .”
Major Álvaro Muñoz Díaz, commissioner of the 51st Police Station, said: “According to the investigation, a struggle began between the young victims and the man on the bicycle. One of these individuals, which is also a matter of investigation, allegedly took the knife from the suspect (the alleged assailant) and stabbed him two or three times, who then fled.”
Subprefect Rodrigo Rodríguez, head of the Southern Border Police (BH Sur), confirmed that cops found the 40-year-old with “stab wounds to the posterior thoracic region, which caused his death on the spot.”
Another official, Deputy Prefect Rodríguez, said that the two victims also went to the police station to report that they had been “victims of the crime of robbery or attempted robbery .”
Detectives have since launched an investigation and are in the process of collecting eyewitness accounts and CCTV evidence. Prosecutor Juan Cheuquiante said the two kids were “intimidated with a firearm.”
He added: “They were students heading to school in the morning, and according to the initial information we have so far, they say that a subject had intimidated them with a firearm, intending to steal their cell phones.”
The prosecutor also confirmed that the deceased had previous criminal records.
