Overview
- In Comas, a plainclothes PNP officer fatally shot Ángel Enrique Paredes Ramos after he killed a combi driver, according to police.
- Witnesses said the Comas attacker had posed as a passenger and allegedly extorted the driver before opening fire.
- PNP commander general Óscar Arriola publicly described the officer’s use of lethal force as lawful.
- In a separate incident in Surco, two gunmen opened fire on a combi near Mall del Sur, killing a passenger and injuring the driver and a woman.
- Police recovered about 11 shell casings at the Surco scene and opened investigations into the shootings, including a possible accomplice in the Comas case.