by “Isra took out a gun and shot into the air, but they ran him over and then stabbed him. He flew several meters towards the roundabout and then they stabbed him several times. He was already in very bad shape, practically dead. Then they started shooting between several people and there was several more injured. It was a horror what happened here last night.” This is how a witness speaks of the brawl that occurred early yesterday morning in the Three Thousand Homes, which ended with two people dead and five others injured by knives and firearms, one of them in very serious condition. One of the injured is a minor, as is the only one of the detainees at the moment.
The events occurred at ten minutes past twelve at night on Victoria Domínguez Cerrato Street, formerly Manuel Fal Conde, a road very close to the train track that separates the Polígono Sur from the Bami neighborhood, that wall that acts as a barrier between a wealthy area of Seville and the neighborhood that repeats time and time again as the poorest in Spain in studies of household income level. Next to the roundabout that leads to the church of Jesús Obrero, two families who have long been at odds over the romantic relationship of two of their members met. What should have been a simple argument escalated the moment the families of both young men entered and took out the firearms.
And it could have been even worse, since a stray bullet flew through the window of a nearby apartment and grazed a girl, oblivious to any conflict, who was slightly injured, in an episode that is very reminiscent of what happened in August 2013, when a A minor of seven years old, Encarnación Silva Salguero, was shot by mistake while she was at home. That death caused a real commotion in the mud, but nothing seems to have been learned since then in an area where incidents with firearms are not uncommon and are part of the displays of muscle and strength made by the drug traffickers who operate. in her.
However, yesterday’s event has nothing to do with drug trafficking. The Isra to which the witness refers was a well-known person in the Three Thousand Homes, Israel GV, 43 years old, very popular for her videos on Tiktok. Many neighbors had seen him carrying a gun at some point. In fact, they say that he climbed to the roof of his block and threatened to shoot at some point. Despite this, he was not a person related to large-scale drug trafficking, which is usually what comes with the possession of weapons. He worked as a cleaning staff at the Virgen del Rocío Hospital, the same place to which he was transferred dying and where he died shortly after his admission, well into the early hours of Monday morning.
Several of his relatives, including one of his sons, are seriously injured, with stab and gunshot wounds. One of them has a shot in the spinal cord and had to undergo life-or-death surgery yesterday. If he survives, he will probably do so with serious consequences. Two other young women in the family were wounded by stab weapons. One of them had a stab in her leg that affected her femoral bone, and she saved her life thanks to the expertise of three national police officers, who put her in the back of the patrol car with one of them covering her wound. And so they arrived at the Virgen del Rocío hospital, which is very close to the place where the events occurred.
The rival family, who resides in Palmete, also has a fatal victim, a young man who was with his father and a minor brother in the car and was hit by a bullet that lodged in his neck. This man died at the Virgen del Rocío hospital hours after being admitted in very serious condition, and despite the efforts of the medical staff to save him. The Police maintain a significant deployment both in the health complex and in the South Industrial Estate, to avoid possible reprisals or revenge.
Both families were at odds over the romantic relationship of two young people, each a member of one of them. The tension between both groups had increased in recent weeks, and finally broke out a few days ago after the boyfriend was admitted to hospital after a massive intake of drugs, possibly as a result of a breakup or heartbreak. The couple left with his family, which caused the young man to wake up in the hospital and call his cousins, workers there. Isra was not working at that time, but her son was, whom the young man asked to bring him something to eat.
Surprised by the couple’s absence, they asked her for explanations, without further news until they met her on Sunday night on Victoria Domínguez Cerrato Street. The young woman, scared, called her relatives, some of whom live outside the neighborhood and came to her aid. This caused several people to gather in the area and an argument began that escalated, but did not end with insults but escalated when Isra took out the pistol that he had shown so many times and began to shoot. shoot shots in the air.
Members of the rival family, in response, ran over this man, displacing him several meters. And then they stabbed him in the head, causing very serious injuries that caused his death moments later. Isra’s relatives responded by opening fire and the brawl ended with six people injured, four of them from gunshot wounds and two from knife wounds.
The Homicide Group of the National Police in Seville has taken charge of the investigation of the matter and has already arrested a first person, a minor, for his alleged participation in the events. More arrests are not ruled out in the coming hours. Yesterday the agents took statements from several witnesses, while the Scientific Police agents carried out a first visual inspection of the scene, where early yesterday morning traces of blood, glass and tires could still be seen. They are also waiting for an autopsy to be performed on the victim’s body, which was transferred yesterday to the Institute of Legal Medicine of Seville.
One day after the altercation, the tension in the area is more than evident and rumors are also beginning to gain strength in the streets of the neighborhood. Both the Police Intervention Unit (UIP) and the Prevention and Reaction Unit (UPR) maintain an active device in Tres Mil to calm things down with the police presence.
The commissioner for the Polígono Sur, Jaime Bretón, expressed his “concern about the fact that a neighborhood or family brawl ends not in insults or a verbal confrontation but in a physical attack with two dead and several seriously injured.” Bretón asked the neighborhood’s residents for “prudence and calm” over the next few days, while he insisted on a request that he has already made on several occasions, every time an incident with firearms occurs in the neighborhood.
“We have asked the Government Subdelegation in Seville to increase gun control in the Polígono Sur. It is not normal for weapons to be carried and displayed in the neighborhood, as for example the deceased did. We also ask that of the Police or Civil Guard’s own investigations, random controls are established to remove firearms from the streets,” said the commissioner.
Bretón has recalled on several occasions that all seizures of firearms in the Polígono Sur, as in the rest of the city, are directly related to operations against drug trafficking. In fact, the possession of firearms is a phenomenon closely linked to drug trafficking. The commissioner requests that random checks be carried out, as they are done to find wanted people or stolen vehicles or seize small quantities of narcotics.
