“Seriously injured by bullets on the public highway, he was in cardiac arrest when help arrived” and was declared dead shortly after, the emergency services said this Friday, November 1. The 18-year-old young man was shot and killed during a possible settling of scores.
The events took place shortly before 4:30 p.m. in the Polygone district, near the city center of Valence, et “the scene was frozen for the purposes of the investigation”it was indicated.
According to a police source, the man was known to the judicial services and could have been the victim of a settling of scores.
Injured the day before
The death could be linked, according to another police source, to a shooting that occurred the previous night in front of a nightclub in Saint-Péray (Ardèche), west of Valence, which left three people shot and injured, including a 22-year-old young man who was seriously injured. hit in the head, and would be linked to drug trafficking.
In a message posted on X (formerly Twitter) Friday evening, the Drôme prefecture announced the arrival of the “CRS 83 last night”, with the aim of “secure the city with the desire not to allow violence to take hold in the districts of Valencia”. « After the events that occurred a few hours earlier, Nicolas Daragon, minister of daily security and mayor of Valence, and Thierry Devimeux, prefect of Drôme, went alongside the staff. of the police, it is added.
