Hugo Luis Lagos Eyzaguirre
Detective — 32 years old.
Background
Hugo Luis Lagos Eyzaguirre
Detective — 32 years old.
Case summary
Hugo Luis Lagos Eyzaguirre, a 32-year-old detective, was murdered on October 26, 1985, while performing a police patrol in Santiago. The crime, classified as a human rights violation, was perpetrated by a member of the Frente Patriótico Manuel Rodríguez, who shot him at point-blank range when the detective requested his identification.
Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos[1]
On October 26, 1985, Hugo Luis LAGOS EYZAGUIRRE, 32 years of age, a detective with the Chilean Investigative Police (Policía de Investigaciones de Chile) assigned to the 15th Judicial Precinct of the Investigative Police, died.
On the aforementioned day, at 7:45 p.m., while he was conducting a police patrol on Avenida José Joaquín Prieto in Santiago, he requested identification from an individual who, while pretending to retrieve his documents, drew a firearm and shot him at point-blank range, causing his death at the scene.
Considering that the victim was performing duties inherent to his service, and that other examined evidence allows for the affirmation that the act was committed by a member of the Frente Patriótico Manuel Rodríguez, this Commission formed the conviction that Detective Hugo Lagos was killed by a member of the Frente Patriótico Manuel Rodríguez, who violated his human rights.
References
- 1Museum of Memoryhttps://interactivos.museodelamemoria.cl/victims/?p=2382