Police sergeant and two robbers dead in gun battle
A POLICE sergeant and two gang members were killed in a gun battle following the robbery of a gas station in Penonomé, Cocle, on Monday evening. October 22.
The shoot-out came after three men had carried out an armed raid on a Delta station on the Inter-American highway in El Canto at the entrance to the city and were escaping by taxi when they were intercepted in front of the Aquilino Tejeira hospital by a National Police patrol car driven by second sergeant Luis Gudiño, 34, a married man with a small family who took several bullets in the chest.
A police captain brought down two of the killers, the third one is still being sought.
It was reported that the thugs were from the Las Lomas area of Penonomé.