On May 20, 1988, Carlos Arturo GONZALEZ VALENZUELA, 31 years old, a 2nd Sergeant of the Carabineros and a musician in the Carabineros National Band, was killed in an attack perpetrated in the commune of Estación Central.

2nd Sergeant González was waiting for public transport at a bus stop on Avenida Pedro Aguirre Cerda, at the underpass of Calle General Velásquez, when two individuals approached him. One of them came up from behind and shot him in the head.

The other finished him off, according to eyewitnesses who spoke to the press; they then took his cap and his service weapon, fleeing the scene on foot. As a result of the attack, the victim received six gunshot wounds—two to the head, two to the posterior trunk, and two to the back, as indicated by the autopsy—dying at the scene of the incident.

The information examined by the Commission reveals that:

The characteristics of the action are consistent with patterns used by armed groups acting under a political pretext. This is supported by the cold-blooded nature of the operation and the choice of victim.

Another element the Commission took into consideration was that on the same day, another police officer was killed under very similar conditions, which allows for the presumption of a concerted action that sought to cause public commotion while simultaneously seizing weaponry;

The victim had no reasonable possibility of defending himself.

This Commission reached the conviction that 2nd Sergeant Carlos González was a victim of a violation of his human rights by private individuals acting under political motivations, though it was unable to specify the group to which they belonged.