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Spanish police arrest 4 after hit-and-run killed officer | Spanish police arrest 4 after hit-and-run killed officer |
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MADRID — Spanish police arrested four minors allegedly involved in the fatal hit-and-run of a police officer in the northeastern province of Huesca, officials said Saturday. | |
Officer Jose Antonio Perez stopped the suspects’ vehicle to carry out an alcohol test and leant into the car Friday night, police said. The 17-year-old driver accelerated, dragging the officer 460 meters (500 yards). The vehicle then hit a guardrail and crashed into an oncoming car, flinging the 54-year-old Perez onto the road where he died. | |
Police said the youths then fled, abandoning Perez and two people injured in the other car. Police arrested two 17-year-olds — the alleged driver tested positive for drugs — and two 14-year-olds Saturday before delivering the suspects to juvenile court officials in the city of Barbastro. | |
Interior Minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz will posthumously award Spain’s Order of Merit to Perez at a ceremony in Barbastro’s cathedral on Sunday. A funeral Mass will then be held in the cathedral and will be attended by high-ranking police officials, an Interior Ministry statement said. | |
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