The Canovelles gunman, Roger López, who on April 9 murdered the person in charge of a shooting club, also fired at another user of the same center, but the gun did not work. This is stated in the judicial summary to which La Vanguardia has had access. Iván A. had been shooting in a shooting booth close to the murderer's. He finished early and went to the bar. When he had already ordered a beer, he realized that he had forgotten his glasses in the shooting gallery. Upon returning, he found the head of the club, Jordi A., bleeding to death on the ground after having been shot five times. In front of him was Roger López, ex-military, holding a revolver that he had borrowed from the club. "They have killed me, they have shot me," the victim was able to stammer before dying.
Ivan went after the assassin until he turned around. Ivan slipped. From the ground, he saw how the young man pointed a gun at him, pulled the trigger, but the bullet did not come out. The man ran away and took refuge in the bathroom. At first, the investigators thought that the weapon had no ammunition, but when Roger López was arrested in Murcia, a 9-millimeter Daewo pistol was seized that had a bullet in the chamber, so the most likely option is that, for Fortunately, the gun jammed. A Granollers court that this week ratified the provisional prison for the detainee charges him with a crime of murder, five kidnappings and also an attempted murder, as the newspaper El País advanced yesterday.
According to the video recorded by the center's security cameras, the victim, Jordi A., 54, had indicated to the defendant that he had five minutes left to close. He was mopping through the shooting galleries when Roger López, without saying a word, addressed him and, taking advantage of the fact that his back was turned, fired five shots at him. After pointing a gun at Iván, he went through the bar and said goodbye with great coldness: “See you later”, he told them. The defendant did not have any mental illness, had no criminal record, and it is unknown what pushed him to kill and plunge into this spiral of violence.
It was 7:35 p.m. when the gunman began a hasty escape, assaulting several drivers at gunpoint to help him escape. Leaving the shooting club, located in a remote area, he ran into two octogenarians. He got in the car, took out his gun and told them: "Run, run, press, they want to kill me." The man, with great aplomb, told him to get out of the vehicle, but the gunman showed the weapon again and insisted: "Take me to Barcelona, they are persecuting me." Again, the driver, with great mettle, refused. “I won't take you to Barcelona”. He went around a roundabout twice and drove a few meters. His wife, sitting in the passenger seat, was crying in anguish. "Shut up, shut up, I won't do you any harm," the gunman snapped. He finally asked to get off at a nearby gas station. "Sorry for the inconvenience," he said goodbye.
At that gas station, the gunman continued with his improvised escape. He assaulted a 43-year-old woman and got into her car. “I have to get out of Canovelles as soon as possible. They are going to kill me, ”he told her as he showed her the gun. The woman drove to Barcelona. At first she wanted to go to Plaça Catalunya, but finally she went through Plaça Glòries and took the Diagonal until Francesc Macià. The killer forced him to skip several traffic lights while the driver begged him to let her go. "Don't worry, nothing will happen to you," he told her. He took her cell phone and searched for news about the murder he had just committed and he also searched for prostitution services. “Putas Barcelona” and “Escorts Barcelona”, he checked on Google. In Dalt's round, he finally freed the woman. “Turn off the phone and don't turn it on until you get home,” he told her.
The gunman then went to a car wash in Pedralbes, opposite the Colegio de las Trinitarias. There he kidnapped two 21-year-olds, Mireia and Inés, pointed their guns at them and forced them to drive him south. The initial idea was to go to Tarragona, but the plans changed on the fly. Valencia, Albacete and finally Murcia. Along the way, the gunman tried to rob a Lidl supermarket and a gas station using one of the girls as a hostage, but he found both stores closed. During the journey, the young women, terrified, asked him where he came from. "If I tell you, I'll have to kill you," he replied. After ten hours of anguish, the young women were released and the gunman arrested. Before, aware of what he had done, he commented: "I'm going to rot in jail."
