Retired police chief wounded in school-zone robbery shootout in El Palomar

Hernán Mariano Catarraso, a retired police chief, was shot while intervening in a robbery near a school in El Palomar, Argentina. The assailants, in a stolen car, had committed a prior theft and fled in a third vehicle after the shooting; at least one may have been hit. The incident highlights violent crime in the Buenos Aires suburbs and the risks of civilian intervention.