Crime, Law & Justice

High-school student dies in accidental shooting

The Villa El Salvador campus of the private Trilce school program.

A 16-year-old high school student was killed and another injured early Tuesday when a schoolmate fired a 9 mm hand gun in the Trilce school in Villa El Salvador in south Lima.  The incident occurred in a classroom while the teacher was giving an economics class.

According to police reports, the student who fired the gun had taken it from his father, without permission, to show it off to his school friends. Police believe the firing was accidental, and that the student had mishandled the weapon. The student is being held in police custody.  The names of the students were not made public.

“It’s a very unfortunate incident and it occurred because of a lack of prevention, a lack of safety (measures) by us adults who have a license to carry guns and who do not give the appropriate recommendations to the family,” said police chief Mario Arata to RPP Noticias.

One Comment

  1. How is it that an accidental shooting (which WAS preventable, if the firearm owner had taken sufficient safety precautions in the home) is a BIG DEAL…..but a street vendor being shot to death in the streets of Chorillos…because he only had s/.40 in his pocket, not enough for the robbers….’doesn’t count’?

    There is a rapidly increasing wave of robberies with the use of handguns….and no hesitation in shooting someone, in the past year. This coincides with a wave of foreigners entering Perú, ‘refugees’ and others, from places where this level of violence is ‘normal’.

    Increased screening and background checks of ‘newcomers’ must be implemented, to weed out the foreign ‘gang bangers’ who have found a ‘rich feeding ground’ in Perú, where people aren’t accustomed to armed robbers on this scale.

    Time for the PNP to get off their butts, out of the Pollerias and comisarias, and out on the streets….and DO WHAT THEY’RE PAID (even though it’s not enough) TO DO.

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