A man was brutally stabbed to death during a robbery outside of a subway station in Chile.

Translated from Spanish via Google Translate:

“The subject was in preventive detention accused of brutally murdering a man outside the Camino Agrícola del Metro station, in the San Joaquín commune.

According to the background of the case, the incident occurred at noon on Friday, when the accused approached the victim on public roads and gave him a series of stab wounds with a knife, before the eyes of several witnesses.

After the attack, he stole her backpack and ran away, but was captured a few blocks away by Carabineros personnel.

However, before being arrested, the individual self-inflicted sharp wounds, for which he had to be transferred to a health center, postponing his formalization for Saturday.

During the hearing, the Prosecutor’s Office requested the most burdensome precautionary measure, since it considers that the man constitutes a danger to the security of society, a request that was accepted by the court.

“After an investigation by the Robbery Prosecutor’s Office of our South Prosecutor’s Office, a defendant was formalized who remained in preventive detention, who according to the first police records would have committed a crime of robbery with homicide, registered at noon this Friday in the public road, in the commune of San Joaquín,” said prosecutor Nadia Mondiglio.

“As could be seen in the video images and by witness statements, the victim was attacked numerous times with a knife by the accused, which caused multiple injuries that caused his death. Once the attack was carried out, the defendant stole the victim’s backpack,” he added.”