At 9:00 p.m. on Saturday, the two young women in their twenties They were washing the car of one of them in the autocleaner located next to the Dalt ring road in Barcelona. Roger L.S.a 20-year-old ex-military man who was on the run from the Mossos d’Esquadra After having killed an instructor from a shooting club in Canovelles (Vallès Oriental), he approached them by surprise, at gunpoint. He got into the vehicle and ordered them to get in and drive at full speed: the police were looking for him because he had just killed a man, he informed them.
The two young women got into the car, started it, and drove away from the car wash. Roger carried two pistols with which he threatened the hostages: a revolver wesson 38mm with 36 cartridges and a 9mm Daewoo with 12 cartridges. They were two short weapons that he had stolen from the Granollers Precision Shooting Club and that he had used to kill the victim. He also had a knife on him.
The two girls, fearing for their lives, complied. The gunman who intimidated them was a young man of the same age: tall, thin, dark-haired with shaved hair on the sides and dressed in black, with white sneakers and a military cloth backpack. Roger was showing them which route they should take. He first directed them to drive towards tarragona. Then she changed her mind and decided to go to Valencia. Then she wanted to continue until Albacete. Finally, he decided to be taken to Murcia.
Two frustrated robberies
During the journey, according to the account of the two young women to the National Police, Roger wanted to hold up a Lidl supermarket and also a fuel station. Pointing a gun at one of her two girls, he forced her to get out of the car and went with her to the store, but it was closed. After that frustrated attempt, he tried to rob the gas station and repeated the system, but he also found it closed and with no way to access its interior. She gave up and the car ended up arriving in the city of Murcia.
Upon entering Murcia, due to their ignorance of the Murcian streets, the three took a lane in the opposite direction along one of the main urban roads. As this newspaper explained, a local police officer who was riding a motorcycle noticed the infraction and stopped her march. The girls spoke with the police hiding that they were being held illegally by Roger. The agent didn’t notice anything strange and let them go. Roger, as they emphasize, told them when they resumed the march that they had just saved the official’s life because if she had tried to identify him he would have killed her.
Released at the gas station
After that incident, the two young women, who had been locked in that car for eleven hours, let Roger know that they were very tired. They had been driving under hard-to-explain stress all night. Roger agreed to release them, hinting that he would continue their journey “by bus”, a red herring. Around 8:00 a.m., the gunman got out of the car at a roundabout and the young women, alone again, entered a Repsol gas station to ask for help.
a patrol of the National Police came to pick them up. The agents were told that they had been kidnapped in Barcelona by a man who had forced them to drive all night to Murcia and who claimed to be the author of a murder committed in Canovelles.
The National Police, who knew about the search device that the Mossos kept active in Barcelona and its surroundings to find that gunman, ordered the available units to search for Roger: they had the description of the suspect provided by the girls and they also had a photograph of his shooting club card.
The agents jesus marin and Hector Lopez They found him at the railway station Carmen around eight thirty in the morning, sitting among the rest of the travelers. That Sunday was the day of processions in the city and there were about forty people in the hall, an influx that discouraged the police from drawing their weapons. The uniformed officers had to reduce him by pounced on him, who struggled and tried to pull out one of the pistols. López and Marín prevented him from doing so and put him in shackles. Roger then asked them why they hadn’t killed him.
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The two girls have already returned to Barcelona. Roger has entered preventively this Tuesday in a prison in Murcia waiting to be transferred to the disposal of the Granollers court, which is investigating the case for the homicide.