The National Police canceled the agents that shot to death 30-year old Rafael Melo Mancebo, porter at the Hospital Infantil Robert Reid Cabral and 29-year old Gerson Elías Núñez, a Banco Popular employee. The policeman shot the porter when denied him entrance to the hospital. The agent was arrested by a fellow policeman on service at the children’s hospital. Elías was shot when attempting to stop a fight involving his brother in the Cristo Rey neighborhood. The Police had arrived to stop the fight. The National Police ordered an investigation into what happened in both cases. District Attorney Francisco Domínguez promised to investigate the increase in cases of police brutality. Former District Attorney Guillermo Moreno criticized that in the past year there have been 300 cases of deaths in police shoot outs.
