Overview
- Officers were alerted around 1 a.m. to an armed individual inside a home in Cabo Blanco, near Los Cristianos on Tenerife.
- Guardia Civil encountered a violent suspect who attacked a officer with a machete before police opened fire, leaving the man dead and the officer hospitalized for surgery.
- Inside the property, police found the child dead and the boy’s mother with severe wounds to her arms and legs; she remains in critical condition in hospital.
- Arona Local Police assisted at the scene and applied a tourniquet to the injured woman as emergency responders arrived.
- Officials say the man had no criminal record or prior complaints, and local reports say investigators are examining whether drugs were a factor as they continue the inquiry.