A minor under the age of 15 has died and another young man is in very serious condition after being shot this Sunday night on Angosta street in the Madrid district of Villaverde after a new incident between Latino gangs.

One of the alleged attackers has escaped to the San Cristóbal subway, according to witnesses.

He is a man of South American origin who wears a blue jacket, black mask and red cap.

Samur doctors are at the scene attending to the victims.

One has been transferred to the Hospital.

The doctors have unsuccessfully tried to revive the other wounded man who has had two bullet wounds.

Finally, they have confirmed his death.

The Municipal Police and the National Police have been deployed in the area and also in the subway to locate the alleged attackers.

Agents from the Homicide group and the Provincial Information Brigade are in charge of investigating the case.

Numerous people have gathered tonight at the site of the shooting, a children's playground on Narrow Street.

The murdered young man lives very close to the shooting scene.

His parents have gone down to the park warned by the neighbors.

They are currently receiving psychological assistance from the Samur doctors.

If this case is confirmed as an incident between Latino gangs, it would be the seventh person killed this year due to incidents between gang members, three of them minors.

The National Police has arrested 1,399 members of youth gangs in Madrid in the last year, of whom 95% were men and 37% minors, and has also seized 646 weapons and has raised 4,360 related drug records to these groups.

It is the data balance of the plan against the gangs activated exactly one year ago by the Government Delegation in Madrid, whose manager, Mercedes González.

It has also specified that, of the 646 weapons seized, only one was a firearm;

Instead, 400 penknives and knives, 65 machetes, 11 detonators and 93 bats or brass knuckles were seized.

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