08/14/2020 - 18:09
- Clarín.com
- Police
A taxi driver was arrested in the city of Tucumán, accused of having murdered a 20-year-old transgender girl last Tuesday, and investigators raided his house where they kidnapped clothing allegedly stained with blood that, it is believed, were the ones he was wearing. at the time of the crime.
The arrest was ordered by the Tucumán Homicide prosecutor, Adriana Giannoni, who is in charge of the investigation of the murder of the young trans woman named Vanesa , discovered last Tuesday around 6.30 am at the intersection of Canal Sur and Alem streets.
Although at first it was believed that the taxi driver had killed the young trans woman when she resisted a robbery, investigators doubt that version provided by the detainee.
For this reason, in the last few hours, the prosecutor Giannoni requested a search of the detainee's home, from which a football shirt and pants were seized, which, according to witnesses and security camera footage in the area, he was wearing the taxi driver at the time of the event.
Vanesa's body was found on Tuesday in Canal Sur and Alem and security cameras in the area allowed investigators to identify the driver who was driving a Fiat Uno taxi as the main suspect of the crime.
Vanesa's body had a stab wound in the back and wounds on her hands.
Spokesmen for the investigation pointed out that the GPS of the taxi made it possible to determine that the vehicle remained 45 minutes in the place where the body of the young trans woman was found.
In addition, the expert reports carried out on the hijacked vehicle determined the discovery of reddish brown spots and other possible biological remains.
According to investigators, the body was face down, with a stab wound to the back and hands that, according to experts, are defense injuries.
For his part, the detainee told the police at first that he was taking the victim as a passenger to Leandro Alem avenue and Canal Sur, where his accomplices were waiting for him with whom they tried to attack him, so he resisted and killed her. Meanwhile, the driver's statement was not verified by justice so far.
Source: Télam