Around 12:00 noon on Thursday, January 28, the body of a 45-year-old man appeared on Calle Gran Canaria, specifically in the one known as "casa del Charco". The cause of death, according to sources from the National Police, could have been "a drug overdose, pending confirmation by the result of the autopsy".
The deceased was known as Maxi, one of the car parkers who usually operated in the Playa del Reducto area. It so happens that the day before his death, on January 27, he had been treated by the Red Cross lifeguards who work on the aforementioned beach, "when he fell to the ground on the sidewalk with convulsions", as Guillén, the health worker who treated him, recalls. "He was suffering from withdrawal syndrome and I stabilized him until the ambulance arrived and he was transferred to the Doctor Molina Orosa General Hospital," he says.
Afterwards, he left the health center, where he could have requested voluntary discharge himself, "as these types of people usually do, once they feel well," according to Guillén. The only thing certain is that the next day, his lifeless body appeared in the aforementioned house, frequented by homeless people and drug addicts.
The second in two days
Maxi has become the second "gorrilla" to have lost his life in the last three days. Last Tuesday, January 26, a 35-year-old man, who this media has been able to confirm was known as Frank, was fatally hit on the LZ-2 road, near El Cable.
A colleague of his, who also works as a car parker in El Reducto, told La Voz that "he had lost his mother two days before", although he makes it clear that "he was not trying to commit suicide, as some say out there. It was an accident", he states.
