A 40-year-old man is the main suspect of having committed a brutal
double femicide
in a house in the Buenos Aires town of
General Pacheco
, where he lived with
his mother and sister
, whom
he murdered with a samurai katana
, a sword of Japanese origin.
The accused, who practiced martial arts, is a fugitive and is being intensively searched by the police.
The incident occurred on Monday night, in a house located on Aguado Street, near Salvador María del Carril,
in the Tigre district
.
There, police officers found the bodies of
Elsa Margarita Suárez, 66, and her daughter Sofía Aurelia Elsa Chaparro, 30
, with signs of having received multiple
cutting wounds in the neck and chest
.
According to investigation sources, the alleged perpetrator of the double crime would be the son and brother of the victims, identified as Daniel, who would have used a samurai katana, a
knife
that has a distinctive
curved
single-edged blade, to attack them.
The weapon was found
in the room
of the suspect, who escaped from the scene after the murders.
Neighbors in the neighborhood reported that Daniel was
a fan of martial arts
and that he used to practice
sword movements in the yard
of his house.
In addition, they indicated that the man
would suffer mental disorders
and that he would have been in the house for the last time last Saturday.
The case was classified as a “double homicide” and was in charge of prosecutor Karina Gisela Bianchi, from the Functional Instruction Unit (UFI) 4 of Tigre, who ordered various measures to find the whereabouts of the accused and
clarify the motive for the attack.
.
This is the
second double crime
that has been recorded in the province of Buenos Aires so far this year.
The first occurred on February 3, when a man murdered a 22-year-old girl and her 4-year-old son and injured a 7-month-old baby with a stab wound.
Hours later, police personnel arrested a young man, named Aníbal Mansilla (29), after a raid on the monoblock housing complex known as the Pepsi neighborhood.
According to the latest report from the Femicide Observatory of the National Ombudsman's Office, in 2023, a total of
322 femicides were recorded, including 30 linked
, in different parts of the country, which implied an increase of 80 cases compared to 2022. This represents a jump of 33% annually.
D.S.