Video: the moment a police officer ran over and killed a 9-year-old boy in Villa Fiorito

A 9-year-old boy died and his 5-year-old brother was injured when the motorcycles they were traveling on were hit by two patrol cars in the town of Villa Fiorito, in Lomas de Zamora. For the death of Felipe Bautista Yedro There is a 21-year-old Buenos Aires police officer detained. The other officer involved in the accident was charged with injuries. Both will be investigated this Tuesday, sources in the case informed Infobae.

The incident began on Saturday night after the Copa Libertadores final between Boca and Fluminense. In that climate of agitation for the party, because there were many people in the street, the first incident occurred. It was when a motorcycle, on which they were traveling Agustín Pogonza and his 5-year-old nephew (both without helmets) hit the left side of a patrol car that was coming down 1000 Necol Street, almost at the intersection with Pío Baroja.

“The motorcycle was coming at speed and the patrol car, who was walking on a dirt road, moved forward to grab the asphalt,” sources from the investigation explained to this medium. At that moment, according to the sources’ account, the second police vehicle appeared, also on Necol Street but on the opposite side. Two officers were traveling in front and, in the back, a violator who had been arrested for driving without a helmet. They were carrying the motorcycle in the bed of the vehicle when they came across the scene of the first crash.

According to the reconstruction carried out by the investigators, when the second patrol car arrived at the scene of the crash, The neighbors surrounded them: They tried to escape from the scene, the driver reversed and ended up hitting a second motorcycle on which Tomás Yedro and his brother Felipe were traveling.

The brutal sequence, which heads this note, was recorded by a neighbor. “He went over it!“, one of the neighbors can be heard shouting.

During Monday afternoon, the head of the Functional Instruction Unit No. 10 specialized in Culpable Crimes, Carlos Patricio Pérsico, and agents from the National Gendarmerie moved to the scene. The Gendarmerie experts created traces to be assessed.

This Tuesday, Pérsico will investigate the drivers of the patrol cars. One of them is detained for “aggravated manslaughter”; the other free, accused of “wrongful injuries”. On Monday, the Buenos Aires police officers who were traveling as companions in the patrol cars and the offender, who claimed to have seen the first crash from the front, stated that the second one had already occurred behind his back.

According to what this media learned, the accused tested negative in the breathalyzer test. “On Saturday night they were not out of their jurisdiction or out of place. They also did not use weapons to repress the people. The clashes were with the Command and not with the Tactical Unit for Immediate Operations (UTOI) to which they belong,” sources in the case told Infobae.

“The police were not able to help us,” denounced Tomás, the victim’s brother in Radio Miter, who was also injured in the accident. “When they attacked us, the people went to rebuke them and “The police, instead of helping us, began to repress us and then left,” lamented the young man driving the motorcycle that was hit by the patrol car.

Tomás said that once the match at the Maracaná ended, he went out for a walk around the neighborhood with his brother. “At one point I lose it and when I get two blocks from my house I first encounter the accident that my cousin had, with my younger brother. I get off the motorcycle to help them and when I go towards my house, The patrolman reverses and drags me with the motorcycle”, he recounted. “The motorcycle saved me but my brother was thrown and died instantly,” he said.