06/20/2020 - 8:46
- Clarín.com
- Police
"I worked for Grandma. I ironed the clothes for the one who killed my husband, took care of the old woman, bathed her. And he did that? They kicked him on the floor, he was not able to say 'stop, what I know. '" Pain and anger in the same measure, this is how Andrea Caballero (37) spends the first hours without Federico Rivero (43) , her husband, The bus driver killed by thieves Tuesday when he was on board his truck and was waiting for his wife to make a purchase in a store in Libertad, Merlo's party.
"I want the recognition round and see them both," added Andrea, who led the march that took place this Friday to call for Justice and measures to flatten the curve of insecurity, which in the last two weeks has also grown steadily at the GBA. .
For the fact, two men were arrested. One of them, identified by the police as Jonathan Acosta , said that when he was captured, he had symptoms compatible with the coronavirus, so the required protocol was activated and he was transferred to the Eva Perón de Merlo hospital.
Sources of that medical center assured that the detainee remained hospitalized pending the corresponding studies that determine whether or not he contracted the disease.
For his part, the other suspect, identified as Sergio Ariel Armoa , will be the first to face the prosecutor in the case, Fernando Capello, head of the Functional Instruction Unit (UFI) 2 of the Morón Judicial Department.
Capello charges them both with the crime of "aggravated homicide criminis causa" , which provides for a life sentence.
Meanwhile, during the raids in which the defendants were detained, a firearm whose caliber matches that of the lead extracted from the victim's body was seized. For this reason, the corresponding comparison must be carried out to determine if it is a murder weapon.
Rivero's widow told C5N channel that one of the detainees lives around the corner from her home and that she knew both her and her husband, while the other suspect "stopped in the neighborhood." In addition, she warned that she wants to be sure that the detainees are the murderers of her husband, which is why they later marched to the 4th police station. de Merlo, "to ask for justice and what they said is true".
The crime occurred on Tuesday, around 7:30 p.m., when the driver arrived at his house after finishing his work day on line 312 and went with his wife to shop in his truck. Federico worked on the first shift of the company Transportes La Perlita SA Every day, "El Gordo" left to go to work at 2 in the morning and drive the bus on line 312, which connects Merlo with Villa León.
They stopped at a store in Sucre, between Esquiú and Finocchietto, from the "La Blanquita" neighborhood, where she went down to buy a soda and her husband stayed in the vehicle, without stopping the engine.
"In that I see two (people) in the window on my husband's side, I say they will be greeting him and I hear that he changes his tone of voice and says 'what am I going to give you', there I feel the shot and the scream from him, "said the woman.
At the time, she said, her husband was lying on his side with half his body hanging from the car because the criminals "wanted to take him out at all costs and take the truck."
Then the woman seized the keys to the truck and the assailants escaped on foot with the couple's cell phones and some money that was in a Rivero fanny pack.
After this, and together with her son, the woman took the wounded man to the Eva Perón hospital, where Rivero suffered three cardiac arrests and died, since the bullet that was shot into him entered his armpit and affected his heart.
With information from Télam