The National Police arrested a 16-year-old minor as the alleged perpetrator of the murder of the taxi driver stabbed on Tuesday in a hospital parking lot in the Madrid municipality of Alcalá de Henares.
The arrest took place around 11 p.m. this Wednesday evening in Alcalá de Henares after the investigation of the agents, during which the examination of the video surveillance system of the taxi in which the events occurred, according to police sources.
Tuesday around 7:45 p.m., near the parking lot of the Príncipe de Asturias hospital, the taxi driver received several stab wounds by a customer he was receiving in circumstances which are still the subject of an investigation.
At first it was thought that the attack took place because a theft of the loot had been foiled, but now It is not clear what the origin of the attack was.according to the police investigation.
Although the driver was able to press the vehicle’s alert button and while going to the emergency parking lot of the Príncipe de Asturias Hospital, after undergoing two emergency surgeries and performing several blood transfusions, he died Wednesday morning at the hospital.
presented five incised stab wounds which affected his hands, his lungs and his liver, according to investigation sources.
The Auto Taxi Guild of Madrid condemned these attacks and requested more resources from the administrations to prevent this type of action from happening again. He also demanded that the competent authorities “implement all means to bring the author” to justice.
