The escape of Dani M.B., the 40-year-old man who on Monday morning allegedly murdered a 15-year-old boy with two shots in a street in Sant Hipòlit de Voltregà , lasted almost eight hours. The nearly 3,000 inhabitants of this small municipality in the region of Osona spent yesterday morning between the shock of the crime and the tension in a town literally taken by a large device of the Mossos d’Esquadra, which has took charge of the investigation.
The entire town knew the detainee, a violent man who had been involved in riots with many neighbors and who also had half a dozen previous incidents in his record. The fugitive managed to remain hidden for hours, despite the mobilization of numerous specialized units. A team of negotiators from the central kidnapping and extortion unit arrived in Sant Hipòlit de Voltregà early in the morning and tried to reach the man through an acquaintance who did not cooperate with the researchers The Mossos knew that the fugitive was armed and wanted to avoid a violent confrontation either way.
A confrontation from which he had no option to escape unscathed. The first to be activated was the special intervention group (GEI) of the Mossos, an elite unit specialized in the neutralization of armed and particularly dangerous targets. And the subject they were looking for was, because he had fired at least two shots at a 15-year-old teenager.
Emergency medical services could do nothing to save his life. The body appeared bloodied in front of number 10 of Carrer de Sant Martà de Sant Hipòlit, right at the doors of the suspect’s home, which after the crime was sealed off by the homicide group of the central police region, in charge of the research
Many neighbors heard the shots, the screams, and some went out into the street. One of them approached the victim. He was bleeding from several wounds. “I touched his neck and he was still alive. The doctors couldn’t do anything,” he explained.
The relatives of the minor gathered throughout the morning at the entrance to the street where the young man was shot. Some needed assistance from the EMS psychological teams.
The GEI, with the help of the police helicopter, the public security patrols, the ARRO and numerous investigators combed the town and the nearby woods. They inspected abandoned ships, caravans…
Around one o’clock in the afternoon, a neighbor alerted saying that he had seen the suspect leaving a factory, from which it was later learned that the man had the keys because he was carrying out repairs on the roof, in Vinyoles d oris
The suspect was walking parallel to C-17. The man raised his hands at the moment he was intercepted by members of the device led by the deputy head of public security, head of the regional shift. He did not resist. He was not armed. He was taken to the Vic police station, where he was treated by an on-call paramedic to treat a minor wound and was taken to the dungeons.
In the afternoon the suspect was taken to the newsrooms and two investigators from the homicide group began to ask him questions. He refused to testify.
