"Patacón" fell, another of the assailants who attacked the baker in Rafael Castillo: the dead assailant received seven bullets

10/06/2020 - 9:45

• Clarín.com

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A man was arrested accused of being the driver of the vehicle in which two of the criminals escaped who last Saturday assaulted the baker who resisted the theft of his truck and shot dead one of the accomplices in Rafael Castillo, La Matanza, they confirmed to

sources of the case.

The arrest was made last night after a search carried out by officers from the 3rd police station.

by Rafael Castillo in a house in the Barrio 17 de Marzo, located in Isidro Casanova.

Likewise, the sources assured that the burgundy Fiat Idea vehicle that the gang used to escape was also hijacked.

The detainee, nicknamed

, will be investigated in the next few hours by the prosecutor in the case, Emilio Spatafora, of the La Matanza Juvenile Responsibility Criminal Court, who on Monday investigated the 17-year-old teenager detained by the assault, and the accused, assisted by a private attorney, refused to testify.

The prosecutor asked that the detainee be housed in an institute for minors, judicial sources said.

On the other hand, the police continue with the search for two of the suspects who have already been identified, among them an 18-year-old who has a gunshot wound to the leg, the investigations said.

In turn, Spatafora received a preview of the autopsy performed on the suspect killed in the assault, identified by the Police as

, and in which the forensic doctors determined that he had a series of impacts from projectiles fired by

that was not found at the scene.

On Saturday, at the crime scene, the police doctor who checked the body observed seven bullet holes, three with entry and exit holes and another four without exit holes.

According to the sources, the investigators await the results of the ballistic tests since a prop gun and a long .38 revolver were seized at the scene.

To determine how Leiva was shot 9 millimeters (distance and trajectory) and other circumstances of the incident, the investigators analyzed the images from a security camera that captured the entire sequence of the assault.

How the attack happened

The incident occurred on Saturday afternoon in the streets Yanzi and Pita, of Rafael Castillo, in La Matanza, when the baker was with his son in a parked gray Volkswagen Amarok truck and was intercepted by four armed criminals for theft. .

According to witnesses, the baker got into a fight with one of them and, in the middle of the struggle, snatched the weapon from him, with which he shot and killed another of the criminals.

The other two assailants fled the shots, while the thief who had been involved in a fight with the baker, after being disarmed, was

, as recorded in a video broadcast on social networks .

The baker assured that he is "sorry" and that he is not a "murderer" but "a laburante."

March in support of the baker who killed a criminal during a robbery.

Photo Mario Quinteros

"Nothing can be explained, or emotion, nothing, I don't remember.

, I'm not a murderer, I'm a laborer, I didn't go out to kill, I went out to put the truck away. I grabbed the gun and then threw it away, it was my life or his, I am not God to decide, "said baker

Shortly before, his wife, Vanesa, had reported to the same media that they receive threats from Facebook and are "very afraid."

"That they are going to come and blow up the baker's house, that they are going to set my house on fire, that we are going to lynch your husband, those things are going out on Facebook," said the merchant's wife.

Asked about the incident, Caivano recalled that he was washing his father's truck with his son when four armed criminals approached, supported by a fifth who was in a car.

"I went out with my hands up, all I asked was for my son to come down and I don't know how I struggled, I don't know where I got the courage.

, I have to be sitting in a chair sleeping in the bakery, my son is sick, my oldest daughter sees me and cries, we all cry, it's a shitty situation, "he said.

About the moment in which he shot one of the criminals, the baker said: "I did not intend to kill him, nor to shoot, it is a difficult situation to explain. The weapon that was on top of the truck was not mine, I do not have weapons, I don't handle weapons, it's from the jets, not mine. "

The corner where the incident occurred, on Saturday afternoon.

They are still looking for two criminals.

Photo Luciano Thieberger.

Caivano, a father of three children, said that he runs his father's bakery, which has been operating in the area for more than 45 years.

"I grew up here, my father raised me here and why do I have to be like this now?" The baker complained.

For her part, Vanesa said that this was not the only fact of insecurity that they experienced since on February 6 thieves entered the home and killed their two dogs: "They entered the patio, forced a bars on me and did not enter the house. the house, otherwise they would kill us all. "

In addition, he said that last Friday they heard "four shots" in the area and that the robberies in the neighborhood happen continuously:

Finally, the woman asked for "protection" for her family and for the employees who work in the bakery, who "out of fear" did not come to open the premises.

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