Víctor Manuel Rolando Soto Cárdenas died that day at 15:40 hours on the Pan-American Highway due to thoracic and left shoulder trauma caused by a bullet, as recorded in the Medical Death Certificate from the Legal Medical Institute.

According to eyewitnesses, that day, at approximately 14:00 hours, while Víctor Soto was walking with another young man inside the Santa Adriana neighborhood, near Pasaje 50, in the commune of La Cisterna, he was wounded by a Carabineros officer dressed in plainclothes who was traveling in a private company vehicle.

The witnesses state that the police officer got out of the vehicle with a weapon in his hands and shouted: "halt, police," and then fired from a distance of 20 meters. Víctor Soto died instantly.

The investigation substantiated in the Fifth Criminal Court of San Miguel was dismissed because the perpetrator of the shooting could never be identified.

The Corporation received information indicating that the eyewitnesses were subsequently harassed and threatened in order to make them retract their initial statements, in which they incriminated a Carabineros officer.

Likewise, it received confidential information confirming that the perpetrator of the shooting was a Carabineros officer dressed in plainclothes, who was indeed traveling in a private company vehicle while performing routine patrol duties.

Considering the evidence gathered, and notwithstanding that the investigation conducted by this Corporation did not succeed in determining the circumstances that led the State agent to fire and cause the death of Víctor Manuel Rolando Soto Cárdenas, the Superior Council deemed that the means employed by said agent were irrational and absolutely unjustified for detaining a person.

For this reason, it declared him a victim of human rights violations by a State agent who made irrational use of force.