A judge investigates the death of the armed man shot down by the Police in Gran Canaria

A judge has opened preliminary proceedings to clarify the circumstances surrounding the shooting by the Police of an 18-year-old man who this Saturday attacked a taxi driver and two officers with a large knife in the vicinity of Gran Canaria Airport.

This was reported this Sunday by the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands (TSJC) in a statement in which it specified that this investigation is being carried out by the investigating court number two of the Gran Canaria municipality of Telde, which was on duty this Saturday.

This judicial body collects images recorded by video surveillance cameras installed outside and inside the Gran Canaria aerodrome in order to reconstruct the events.

The body of the deceased, a native of Gambia, as confirmed to EFE by the Police, received five shots, one of them in the neck, and the videos now being analyzed by the court "show that, apparently, he was out of his mind carrying a knife of considerable size".

"After attacking a taxi driver, he knocked down an officer of the authority, tried to knock down another, and wandered armed in an area" where "a large number of people" gathered, "generating a real danger to their physical integrity," details the TSJC note.

The Superior Headquarters of the Police of the Canary Islands reported this Saturday that the events took place around 4:50 p.m. at the entrances to the international flight terminal of the Gran Canaria airport, where agents of the body "had to use their firearms after the violent action of the man who, allegedly, tried to commit a robbery with violence using a knife against a taxi driver in the vicinity" of the aerodrome.

During the police intervention, the aggressor pounced on the agents with the weapon, "seeing themselves forced to repel the attack through the regulatory use of their firearms".

Immediately, the emergency services were activated, both from the airport and from the Canary Health Service, who tried to revive the individual, although they could only confirm his death.