An 18-year-old student was shot in the buttocks when he and a group of 40 students from a school in Rosario were caught in the middle of a shootout against the facade of a service station in that city, where the attackers left a message. intimidating for a prosecutor investigating the drug gang “Los Monos” and for a woman accused of extortion, police and judicial sources reported. The incident occurred after 11:30 p.m. this Tuesday at a YPF service station located on Rondeau Boulevard and Marull Street, in the northern area of Rosario, and two suspects who were traveling on a motorcycle in the vicinity were arrested in the case. and its possible link with the shooting is being investigated, the informants told Télam. The injured man, 18 years old and identified as Daniel R., was part of a contingent of students from the Juan Bautista Alberdi Secondary School who were preparing to board a micro route to the province of Córdoba as part of a study trip. Under these circumstances, the attackers fired shots at the YPF and the young man who was circumstantially there was injured, so he was immediately transferred to the Clemente Álvarez Emergency Hospital (HECA), where this Wednesday he remained hospitalized out of danger. Meanwhile, at the scene, the shooters left a note with an intimidating message - the content of which was not officially revealed - addressed to the prosecutor of the Organized Crime and Complex Crimes Agency, Matías Edery, who is investigating members of the Rosario drug gang. "The monkeys". That same message, the sources added, also mentions a member of that criminal organization who has been charged since last Monday in a case for alleged extortion of the owner of lottery agencies. He added that, by decision of both the families and the establishment's directors, the entire contingent “went on a trip to Córdoba.” “That decision was made when we confirmed that the student was out of danger. The group is accompanied by directors, teachers and parents,” Serafini added.