After finishing a routine overnight shift, Venezuelan
policeman Edgar Perez was walking home from the bus stop when two armed men
pulled up on a motorbike. Perez, 41, had time to draw his gun and injure one of the
attackers in the shootout near his modest home in the town of Ocumare del Tuy
outside Caracas, but the other shot him in the head and took his weapon. The
officer died shortly afterwards in a nearby clinic, leaving a widow and three
children. That same week in November, five other police officers were shot dead
across Venezuela - among 268 murdered in 2014 in one of the world's most
dangerous places to be a cop. More…
Friday, January 30, 2015
In violent Venezuela, police killings surge to almost one a day
After finishing a routine overnight shift, Venezuelan
policeman Edgar Perez was walking home from the bus stop when two armed men
pulled up on a motorbike. Perez, 41, had time to draw his gun and injure one of the
attackers in the shootout near his modest home in the town of Ocumare del Tuy
outside Caracas, but the other shot him in the head and took his weapon. The
officer died shortly afterwards in a nearby clinic, leaving a widow and three
children. That same week in November, five other police officers were shot dead
across Venezuela - among 268 murdered in 2014 in one of the world's most
dangerous places to be a cop. More…
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