U.S. Embassy Worker Held in Road-Rage Shooting
Ecuador has arrested a U.S. Embassy attache in the fatal shooting of a motorist and asked Washington to revoke his diplomatic immunity from prosecution, government officials said Friday.
Samuel Peter Karmilowicz, identified as a civil attache by the U.S. Embassy in Quito, the capital, is accused of killing Ecuadorean Pablo Vicente Jaramillo in a road-rage incident early Thursday.
Police said Karmilowicz’s car lightly collided with a taxi carrying Jaramillo.
The Ecuadorean apparently got out of the taxicab to protest the crash, and Karmilowicz allegedly shot him in the chest.
The U.S. Embassy and a State Department spokeswoman in Washington declined to comment, saying the incident was under investigation.
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