On October 27, 1973, Communiqué No. 87 of the Cautín Military Intendancy announced that "under circumstances where the activist Guillermo HERNANDEZ ELGUETA, former sub-delegate of Cunco, was being interrogated at the Carabineros station in Toltén, and while he was in custody having confessed to his participation in a plan to assault Carabineros barracks and eliminate the personnel and their families, he took advantage of the fact that the facility's door was open to suddenly flee; he did not obey the order to stop, at which point the personnel used their firearms, resulting in his death."

This version provided by the authorities is not credible, as it seems highly improbable that a prisoner could escape from a heavily guarded police facility. Even if it had been effective, there is no reason to believe that death was the only means of recapture.

This Commission thus reaches the conviction that Guillermo Hernández was executed by State agents and was a victim of a grave human rights violation.