National District prosecutors requested preventive custody in the involuntary homicide case whereby Delcy Miguelina Yapor died of a bullet that was aimed at purse-snatchers in the Evaristo Morales neighborhood on Monday, 20 March 2017. Former corporal of the Air Force Franklin Padilla fired at the motorized assailants on Francisco Prats Ramírez near parking of the BHD bank. It was later learned he carried the gun without the legal permit.
Padilla said he was walking his dog and saw the assailants on a motorcycle point their gun at a young woman, later identified as Yunairi Hernandez Lluberes, and take her bag. He then fired at them, seeking to impede their escape and instead impacted Yapor who was driving children to school in her van. On board were two children.
At the time, Padilla did not know he had caused the death of Yapor and went about his morning routine. Padilla was arrested in Villa Juana where he worked and the test to his gun was positive.
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