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Jesús Antonio González was arrested in Cárdenas, Matanzas, after injuring an intruder in the arm with a homemade firearm.
“In an incident that took place in the Reparto Fructuoso Rodríguez, a 54-year-old man was injured in the arm while searching for a piece of zinc to protect a charcoal oven he was building at his home,” reported on Facebook by the official profile Con Todos la Victoria.
The victim went to a dump on the Zeopónico farm, "where the owner, thinking he was being robbed, shot him with a homemade firearm made from a tractor injector."
"The man was taken to a medical unit for treatment. Meanwhile, the owner of the property will face charges for possession of a firearm and injuries," the information specified.
At the end of October, a 14-year-old teenager was shot in the city of Camagüey.
The shot came from the service weapon of an agent of the National Revolutionary Police (PNR), who also wounded himself in the incident, according to a report from the Ministry of the Interior (MININT) in a news release in which it attributed the shot to an "accident" that occurred during an attempted arrest.
The minor, who was armed with a knife and resisted arrest, was urgently transported to the Eduardo Agramonte Piña Provincial Children's Hospital, where he underwent surgery.
Around the same time, it was reported that in Perico, Matanzas, the police recovered several firearms.
The news, also published by the official Facebook profile Con Todos La Victoria, has raised more questions than answers due to the extreme lack of details provided.
According to the brief post from the mentioned profile, “several firearms were recovered in Perico” thanks to the “collaboration” of three citizens.
The message adds that it involves two revolvers of calibers 38 and 22, two rifles of caliber 22, and a caliber 12 shotgun.
The delivery is said to have been made by individuals who allegedly claimed that the weapons belonged to deceased relatives.
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