Diario Libre headlines a story in which the police appear to have avenged the shooting of a fellow officer, sargeant Domingo Batista, supposedly by a resident in the Capotillo ghetto. 18-year-old Alfredo Martinez Duran (alias the Shark) died yesterday of three gun shot wounds to the chest, neck and leg, received during his attempt to elude police officers in pursuit. During previous confrontations in the Capotillo slum area on 4 February, sargeant Batista was seriously injured, allegedly by Martinez Duran. The sargeant is in a coma in the Moscoso Puello Hospital.