Former military man shoots and seriously injures his ex-wife and then kills himself with same gun in Torrox
The shocking incident happened in the middle of a street in the coastal town located on the eastern strip of the Costa del Sol this Tuesday afternoon
Irene Quirante / Eugenio Cabezas
Malaga
Tuesday, 27 June 2023, 17:35
A 69-year-old man has died after shooting himself with the same weapon with which he had tried to kill his ex-wife (aged 66) in Torrox, a coastal town on the eastern strip of the Costa del Sol, this Tuesday afternoon (27 June), police sources have told SUR.
Local residents who witnessed the events called the 112 Andalucía emergency services control room to alert them about the incident which happened in the middle of Calle José Ariza at around 3.55pm.
Local Police officers, health services and the Guardia Civil were quickly on the scene.
According to sources, the man fired several shots at chest height at the woman, who was seriously injured, before taking his own life with the same gun. Health services certified the death of the individual, a retired military man from Seville Apparently, the alleged attacker travelled from Osuna, where he lived, to Malaga in search of the victim, who was staying in the province with a relative.
The alleged attacker, SUR has learned, shot the woman at least twice. One of the bullets injured the victim in the chest area, near her heart, for which she had to be urgently transferred to the Regional University Hospital of Malaga (Carlos Haya). A second projectile was stopped the bag that the victim had on her abdomen.
SUR understands the couple divorced a few years ago and had several children together.
The Guardia Civil police force has opened an investigation into the shooting, which has all the hallmarks of a gender violence incident.
