The Playita del Guasmo sector once again experienced minutes of anguish due to a new shooting recorded on Thursday night.
The shooting was reported before 10:00 p.m. Residents of that sector of southern Guayaquil began to report people wounded by bullets on Cacique Tomalá and Abdón Calderón avenues.
At that time, videos of people wounded by gunshots began to circulate, and it was seen that people were running to help them.
This is known from the shooting that occurred on Friday night at the Playita del Guasmo, in the south of Guayaquil
When the first ambulance arrived at the site, the injured had already been transferred by other means to the Guasmo hospital.
Residents said that the attack on Thursday the 10th occurred in the Amazonas 2 cooperative, a few blocks from the Playita del Guasmo.
The police report indicates that residents of the sector reported that a vehicle arrived in the sector and several men shot at citizens who were outside a home.
But in the neighborhood there is also talk that there were two cars and that at least 8 men opened fire.
The data indicates that the event left four dead and one person injured. Among the dead is a 16-year-old teenager who has no criminal record. The other deceased are between 21 and 33 years old. They also do not have a record, but one of them registers a judicial process for illicit trafficking of substances subject to control.
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This Friday, the Police have indicated that in the face of the events that took place in the Guasmo sector “it has deployed its investigative and intelligence units to gather evidence in order to locate those responsible.”
On the night of last January 21, there was a shooting on a field in Playita del Guasmo, which left five dead and nine wounded in total, according to information from the National Police at the time. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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