Moreno was hospitalized in the capital in the early morning on Thursday with a bullet lodged in his brain, following protests in the municipality of Padre Hurtado, on the outskirts of the city.
As per the medical reports, the young man was impacted by “a high-velocity, high-prenetration object, so much that it perforated the skull and generated significant brain damage,” and remained in a coma until his decease.
Ariel Moreno’s death is added to another three deaths that took place this week during the protests in the capital, with a man reported dead during a fire at a supermarket, and another young man run over by a bus.
But the first fatal victim was Jorge Morena, 37 years, who at night on Tuesday was run over by a heavy truck of the Carabiniers corps upon leaving a stadium after a soccer game.
This generated large protests, which increased after it became known that the Carabinier responsible for this was set free, with just the obligation of reporting on a weekly basis and being forbidden from leaving the country, since the judge determined it was just a “justified negligent conduct.”
Since then the nights and early mornings in the capital have been full of violent protests, spearheaded by the local hooligans, with attacks on Carabinier precincts, arson of buses of urban buses, and looting of commercial establishments, among other violent acts.
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