A teenager is murdered with a shotgun in the chest in Benito Juárez: the boyfriend was arrested

08/12/2020 - 19:54

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When the police arrived at the rural establishment that is about 60 kilometers from the center of Benito Juárez , she was sitting on the ground, leaning on the bed. The shot to the chest had been fatal. And he kept screaming for forgiveness .

Kevin Herrera, 20, was arrested for the crime of Rocío Sañudo .

She was 17 years old and from Azul, but she lived with the young man in the rural establishment of San Gerónimo , located in Cuartel VII, in the Benito Juárez district.

For Rocío's crime, her 20-year-old boyfriend was arrested. Photo Facebook.

Rocío received a shotgun in the chest , judicial and police sources reported today.

The .22 caliber carbine found by the Rural Patrol Command Police was one meter from the body.

The weapon will be appraised to determine if that was the weapon used to commit the homicide.

"You have to see the expertise , the result of the autopsy, the trajectory of the shot, among other elements, to see how the situation was," a spokesman in charge of the investigation told Télam.

Where is Benito Juárez

This party is located in the south-central region of the province of Buenos Aires.

The thing is, Rocío's boyfriend kept yelling that he had missed the shot when he was taken away.

Although the investigators also noted that there were signs of violence in the room : a closet door torn off and clothing scattered on the floor.

Judicial and police sources reported that although the main hypothesis was that of a " femicide ", the investigators did not rule out a " wrongful death ", that is, it was unintentional.

In the last ten years in Argentina there is an average of one femicide every 30 hours. According to statistics from the Office of Domestic Violence of the Supreme Court, in 2018 alone there were 278. Most murders occur in the homes of the victims and are committed by partners or exes.

Where to callLine 144

Care for women in situations of violence.

Attention to Victims of Family Violence.

The incident is investigated by prosecutor David Carballo, in charge of UFI No. 2 of the Blue Judicial Department, and Benito Juárez's assistant prosecutor, Paula Rodríguez.

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