It was the early morning of Sunday, June 8, 2026, and Jessica was returning from celebrating her birthday with her sister when she stopped to get gas at a station on Route 5, beside Cerro Chena, in San Bernardo. Four men got out of a car and surrounded her: gun in hand, they snatched her jewelry, chains, cellphone, and purse with her documents and the keys to the truck. The pump attendant ran out. Her sister froze. In seconds, Jessica was alone.
What none of the four had counted on was that one of them had stayed behind trying to take the truck, not knowing that his accomplices had already left with the keys. Jessica saw him. And she also saw that the fuel hose was still connected to the vehicle. She grabbed it, sprayed the man with what was left of the gasoline, and shouted that she was going to set him on fire. The thief fled without looking back.
When she was asked whether she would have lit a match if she had had one, Jessica did not hesitate: “I think that in the moment I would have done it.” The four criminals still have not been arrested.
