The event, in which there is a second person injured, occurred after 11 o’clock at the aforementioned station head of the C subway line.
In circumstances that are being clarified, a 30-year-old passenger had an argument and subsequent altercation with a subway worker, as a result of which the officer, identified as Analía Salazar (35), belonging to the Line C Division, approached. D, E, H and Premetro of the City Police.
According to the sources, the man became involved in a fight, struggled and managed to take Salazar’s regulation 9-millimeter pistol, with which he began to fire a series of shots. The policewoman was hit by two of two shots, one that hit her chest and the other that grazed her neck area.
Police spokesmen indicated that an Emova employee was also slightly injured by rubbing against another of the shots. The officer was first assisted by doctors from the Same and then she was transferred by helicopter and in an emergency operation to the Churruca Hospital where she was being assisted.
The owner of Same Buenos Aires, Alberto Crescenti confirmed in a dialogue with C5N that they met the officer wounded by “two bullet wounds” but after a series of “resuscitation maneuvers” they were able to “compensate” her and get her out of cardiac arrest, after which they took her to the helicopter that took her to the Churruca Hospital.
“We also have a civilian wounded, Metrovías personnel. They are letting me know that he received a kind of superficial scratch, he is not in danger and we are transferring him to the Fernández Hospital,” added the doctor.
The assailant ran away from the station, but was pursued by a member of the City Police and another from the Federal Police -with jurisdiction in Retiro-, who managed to subdue him and arrest him in front of the Sheraton hotel. The defendant is a 30-year-old man with a history of gender violence in 2021 and for resisting authority in 2020, the spokespersons said.
Regarding the medical report of officer Salazar, sources from the City Police reported that she was assisted in the “shock room” of the Churruca Hospital, that she was admitted to the operating room due to a firearm wound in the chest and neck region. , that he was with left lung involvement and that his condition is “critical and with a reserved prognosis.”
