On October 20, 1976, it was officially reported that a confrontation had occurred between Carabineros in a patrol car and two suspicious individuals who, upon being questioned, drew firearms, leading to a shootout.

As a result, one of them was wounded, while the other managed to take refuge in a local factory, where he died from a gunshot wound received during the initial confrontation. It was stated that two pedestrians were also wounded.

The victims of these events were Juan Rolando RODRIGUEZ CORDERO, an employee and widower of Catalina Gallardo—whose case has already been recounted—who, due to the persecution he was facing following the execution of his spouse, was planning to leave the country; and Mauricio Jean CARRASCO VALDIVIA, a student and MIR militant, who was also linked to the events of the previous year, as both the mother of the Gallardo siblings and the mother of the Ganga siblings were interrogated by DINA agents about his whereabouts while they were in detention.

Their captors claimed that he was the leader of the group to which their children belonged.

Shortly before the death of Mauricio Carrasco, his home had been raided by Investigaciones agents, who took one of his brothers into custody and repeatedly told him that Mauricio Jean was the leader of the political group that the Gallardo family belonged to. After the alleged confrontation took place, the same agents told his brother that they had killed him.

This Commission has had access to an eyewitness testimony indicating that the events occurred differently than the official version stated. On the day of the events, numerous vehicles arrived at the scene and stopped abruptly.

Juan Rodríguez and Mauricio Carrasco were sitting on a bench on the opposite sidewalk. An individual got out of the first vehicle and, without a word, opened fire on them with a machine gun; one of them died immediately, and the other was left wounded and later died. The agents continued firing into the air and indiscriminately, wounding an individual who was exiting a factory.

Based on the aforementioned testimony and the background of repression against relatives and persons linked to the victims, the Commission concludes that there is sufficient evidence to form the conviction that both men were executed by state agents in violation of their human rights.