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A lead in a mattress, a key finding in the case of the pensioner killed and burned in a robbery

2020-08-22T23:40:09.599Z


The attacker, nicknamed "Titi", had a family relationship with the victim, whose body was found with multiple burns from the house fire.


08/22/2020 - 14:19

  • Clarín.com
  • Police

The investigators in charge of the death of the retired woman found lifeless after a fire in her house in the Buenos Aires town of José C. Paz, where a distant relative confessed the murder to her mother and photographed herself with the banknotes that she stole from The woman and uploaded it to Facebook , they found a bullet lead in a burned mattress in the house, which would indicate that he had killed her with a bullet.

Although details remain of the autopsy operation of the victim, identified as Rosario "Charo" Gómez (80) , in Luis Domínguez 4242, meters from Route 24, the experts returned to the scene and found a bullet lead inserted into a partially burned two-seater mattress.

This would indicate that the woman may have died from a gunshot prior to the fire, although it cannot be established for the moment until the result of the autopsy is obtained.

What is expected for the next few hours is the investigative statement of Brandon Galeano (22), alias "Titi" , before the prosecutor Lorena Carpovich, in charge of the decentralized Functional Instruction Unit (UFI) 21 in Malvinas Argentinas, San Judicial Department Martin.

Meanwhile, the family was waiting for the delivery of the woman's body for the afternoon of this Saturday to be taken to the José C. Paz cemetery, in the middle of all the protocol for the coronavirus pandemic.

The crime occurred on Thursday, around 11:30 am, in a house located at 4242 Luis Domínguez Street, between Padre Ustarro and Defensa, in the San Gabriel neighborhood of José C. Paz, in the northwestern part of Greater Buenos Aires.

Galeano was doing paint work at the house of the woman he later assaulted and killed.

According to informants, the detainee was doing painting work at the victim's house and a neighbor saw him arrive at the house with a can of gasoline.

A call to 911 alerted to a fire and fire personnel arrived at the scene to put out the flames that had started in two rooms.

After extinguishing the fire, the Police found the victim dead, who had several burns on his body. Galeano was arrested by police from the 1st police station. by José C. Paz in a house located in Colon at 4100, in that town. The detainee is accused of the murder of Gómez, who called him "nephew", since he was the grandson of one of his first cousins.

Both Mario and his brothers confirmed in statements to the press that the defendant photographed himself on Facebook with the bills that he stole from his mother and that he escaped from the crime scene with the bread that the old woman had bought him for breakfast.

The young man told his mother after the crime "I sent myself the shit of the year" and his delivery was agreed to before the police of the first police station of José C. Paz.

With information from Télam

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Source: clarin

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