Overview

• Catalan police received an alert around 3:30 p.m. on Calle Doctora Castells in the Cappont neighborhood of Lleida.
• Officers found the victim, a Mossos d'Esquadra agent, dead in the street after a shooting with a firearm.
• The suspect, the victim’s 78-year-old father-in-law, surrendered at the scene and was detained by Mossos.
• Investigators say available information indicates a family conflict rather than a work-related motive.
• The Mossos’ Criminal Investigation Division assumed the case and a judicial secrecy order was imposed on the proceedings.