Panama - A GPS error cost the life of 74-year-old Rafael Parada Gonzalez yesterday at Santo Tomas Hospital after he was shot on Calle B in Santa Ana. Everything points to the fact that the subjects who shot the elderly man may have thought he was a rival who was about to attack them, so they opened fire. According to reports, Parada Gonzalez, along with a relative, was heading to the Casco Viejo of the capital city and, as he did not know the streets he had to take to get to the place, he used a geolocation application that accidentally diverted them to Calle B. A group of men who were standing between towers #1 and #2 of Patio Pinel, seeing that the vehicle was advancing towards them in the opposite direction, started shooting without knowing that the occupants were local visitors who only wanted to spend some time having fun in Casco Viejo. Although the elderly man's relative tried to dodge the bullets, at least one of them hit him and penetrated his back. Seeing him bleeding, the sedan driver drove towards Santo Tomas Hospital, where Parada died after 11:00 p.m. yesterday. As a result of this unfortunate event, an 11-year-old child who was walking with his mother on Calle B at the time of the attack was grazed by one of the bullets on the right cheek, so he received medical attention at the Children's Hospital.
