Santiago's 11th Guarantee Court remanded a 29-year-old Venezuelan citizen in pretrial detention. The man is accused of shooting a 31-year-old compatriot on San Petersburgo Street, in the municipality of San Miguel, on the night of May 3.
According to Emol, the Public Prosecutor's Office formally notified him that he was under investigation for attempted homicide and illegal possession of a firearm. This formal notification means that prosecutors informed him at a hearing before a judge that they were investigating him for those offenses. Attempted homicide is a killing that is not completed because the victim survives, even though the perpetrator did everything necessary to cause death.
The account of events comes from prosecutors. Around midnight, both men were taking part in a gathering on a public street and argued. The accused left and, about thirty minutes later, returned with a firearm and shot at the other man several times. He then fled in a vehicle.
One of the shots struck the victim in the head. He was taken to Barros Luco Hospital with life-threatening injuries, where he spent several months in critical condition. He survived.
Prosecutor Sebastián Gana, of the Public Prosecutor's Office's Organized Crime and Homicide Team (ECOH), explained that the victim "was on a public street spending time with a group of friends" when the altercation occurred, according to BioBioChile.
ECOH prosecutors and the Investigative Police (PDI) identified the accused by reviewing security camera footage. This allowed them to track the vehicle in which he escaped. They also located witnesses who described how the events unfolded and identified him in a photo lineup. One of them said the attacker was wearing a red and black sweatshirt when he threatened the victim and returned in a different sweatshirt to shoot him.
The sources do not report the exact date of the arrest or the hearing. They also do not provide the case number (RIT or RUC, the identifiers for the case file in the court and the Public Prosecutor's Office) or the defense's account.
The case is under investigation, and the accused is presumed innocent unless convicted. The court set a 100-day deadline for prosecutors to gather evidence before deciding whether to file an indictment.