On July 17, 2011, Israel Huerta Céspedes pulled a gun from his coat and began shooting for no apparent reason to the passengers of a car that was arriving at the terminal station.

He was born in the rural town of Las Cabras and arrived in 1980 to live in Rinconada de Maipú with his parents and ten brothers.

Relatives and close friends described him as a peaceful and kind person, but who had entered a strong depression after the death of his mother, two months before the attack.

The shooting left several wounded, three seriously and two (Fernando Oñate Muñoz and Mario Acevedo Meneses) who later died while being treated in hospitals.

After the attack, Metro suspended the operations of Line 5 between stations Plaza de Maipú and Las Parcelas for the development of the investigation.