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02-14-2007, 01:50 PM
On Monday, army Major Angel Veras Ortega was shot and killed in what was described as a "settling of accounts." According to Listin Diario, nothing was taken from the Major's body, but reports in other newspapers tell of a missing weapon and cell phone. The Major was an officer in the Presidential Corps of Military Adjutants. Yesterday police Captain Cristian Altagracia Jimenez was murdered in a shootout with thieves who were trying to steal his car. Hoy newspaper quotes a police spokesperson as saying that Jimenez had stopped his vehicle to switch from propane to gasoline when three armed individuals approached him and told him they were taking his car. The Captain took out his service pistol and fired at the three would-be thieves, two men and a woman, injuring the woman and receiving mortal wounds in the process. The captain and the woman died several hours later.

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