A 41-year-old man was arrested this morning in the Barcelona town of Santa Coloma de Gramenet after his failed attempt to kill a woman with a shot to the head, which led to a fight with a friend of the victim, that he has wounded with a machete.
Sources from the Mossos d’Esquadra have informed EFE that they have been alerted around one in the morning of this event, which occurred in front of a bar located on Doctor Pagès street in the aforementioned town.
When the woman left the premises, the man who was waiting for her on the street, near the bar, shot her in the head with a pistol, but the weapon jammed and failed to injure the victim.
At that moment, according to the digital newspaper ElCaso, a friend of the woman saw what happened from the bar and went out to the street, where he got into a fight with the aggressor, who took out a machete and wounded him in the face. Leg.
The Mossos arrived at the scene when the two men were fighting, which allowed, among other things, the agents to get hold of the gun and the machete.
The two men had injuries, so they have been taken to a hospital for treatment.
The Catalan police have opened an investigation to clarify this case, which they initially consider to be an attempted homicide, and in which all those involved are of Chinese origin.
