'Rambo' police pilot Oscar Perez, who hijacked helicopter, killed in operation in Venezuela

Rogue Venezuelan helicopter pilot Oscar Perez has been killed in a police operation along with six other militants, spurring Opposition complaints of human rights violations. “In the face of an attack that put the lives of security officials at risk, the attacking group was neutralised using established protocols, with the unfortunate result of seven dead terrorists,” Reverol said in a televised broadcast. Interior Minister Nestor Reverol said seven "terrorists" including Mr Perez were killed in the operation outside Caracas, along with two police officers involved in the raid. "The members of this terrorist cell who engaged in armed resistance were killed and five criminals were captured and arrested," the Venezuelan government said on state-run VTV television. People in El Junquito took to the streets to show their support of Perez, who became Venezuela's most wanted man after the helicopter attack. He appeared with a bloody face in nearly a dozen Instagram videos while under siege, saying he was surrounded by authorities shooting at him with grenade launchers even though he was promising to surrender. “We are trying to negotiate because there are innocent people here, there are civilians … they literally want to kill us.”

Perez, an officer in the country’s investigative police force, is known for leading a helicopter attack against the Ministry of Justice and the Supreme Court in June. Perez, a photogenic former police officer who once starred in an action film, last year used a hijacked helicopter to attack government buildings and stole weapons from a military base in what he called a rebellion against President Nicolas Maduro.
The Venezuelan government confirms that Óscar Pérez, the rogue pilot responsible for the Caracas helicopter incident in June 2017, was killed in a firefight with the Venezuelan Army yesterday. Two police officers and seven people from Pérez's group were killed, and six members of Pérez's group were arrested.