Overview
- Police say about six armed individuals entered the Tecnomega electronics store in Quito’s La Magdalena neighborhood and tried to rob it.
- Officers arrested four suspects at or near the scene and recovered three guns, including what they described as a homemade mini-rifle.
- Video broadcast nationally shows Christian Lara in handcuffs outside the shop as onlookers kick and punch him before police move him to a patrol car.
- Police say Lara was stopped in a waiting getaway car and that shots were exchanged with the suspects during the response.
- Authorities named the other detainees as Luis Alberto Mera Martinez, Wilter Ramón Cedeno Marciklo, and Medina Lombeida Jose Eduardo, and said Lara is the only one without a prior record as prosecutors decide on charges.