A rogue Venezuelan police helicopter pilot leading a resistance against the country’s socialist dictatorship is believed to have been killed after a violent standoff with police on Monday.

Police officer Óscar Pérez reportedly posted videos on his Instagram account with his face covered in blood while he appeared to be under attack by the military as part of a government-sponsored manhunt. Pérez became a household name in Venezuela in June, after using a government helicopter to fly over the nation’s capital waving a banner calling for Venezuelans to use Article 350 of their constitution, which allows for the deposing of any leader who “defies the values, principles, and democratic guarantees or disregards human rights.”

Socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro stands accused of a variety of human rights violations, most involving the use of violence against unarmed, peaceful protesters demanding regime change.

“They’re shooting at us with RPGs [rocket-propelled grenades],” he said. “There are civilians inside here. We said we’d turn ourselves in, but they don’t want to let us turn ourselves in. They want to kill us.”

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CNN has since quoted an unnamed high-ranking regime source confirming that Pérez was killed.

In a speech on Monday, Maduro reported on the successful operation while describing Perez as a “fanatic, extremist terrorist.”