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Murdered officer was a very considerate woman

She was shot to steal her sidearm. The killing orphans four children

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Murdered officer was a very considerate woman
SANTO DOMINGO. The Police officer assassinated yesterday by two men while she was directing traffic on the Francisco J. Peynado Bridge, was called a very helpful woman by her neighbors, and she was always ready to serve others.

This was the description given by some neighbors at the National Police residential area at Kilometer 17 of the Las Americas Highway for Mercedes del Carmen Baez Torres. Baez Torres was shot in the back and killed by one of two men who later took her sidearm and left the scene "like lightning" before stunned sight of onlookers who were passing by at the time of the incident.

Baez Torres, a second lieutenant of the National Police, assigned a month ago to the Metropolitan Transit Authority (AMET), is the fourteenth agent murdered by men who on each occasion have taken the officer's sidearm.

The officer was take to the Ney Arias Lora Trauma Hospital in critical condition where she died as she received medical treatment.

Yesterday, the Chief of the National Police, Major General Manuel Castro Castillo, asked that the two men turn themselves in any way they feel is necessary and he added that both men are armed.

Mercedes del Carmen Baez Torres was the mother of four children and had received an apartment from the Police.

Baez Torres was a native of Santiago Rodriguez and lived together with her family in the Police Housing Complex near the V Centennial Racetrack.

Officers of the Homicide Investigation Department are in charge of the investigation in this case.

The officer had arrived at AMET a month ago, and upon her arrival she was immediately assigned to the Villa Mella Command, under the order of Colonel Edgar Medina Farias, the commander of this unit in North Santo Domingo.

The officer's remains were taken to the National Forensic Pathological Institute for the obligatory autopsy.

The murder took place at 7:15 in the morning yesterday.

Yesterday, officer accompanied by member of the Justice Department carried out several searches in different points of North Santo Domingo, including Sabana Perdida in search of those responsible for the murder of the officer.

In the houses where she lived, her neighbors were saddened and according to Mario Soto, a policeman who lives there, "there was an air of pain and impotence."