10/18/2020 1:14 PM
Clarín.com
Police
Updated 10/18/2020 1:14 PM
A 43-year-old man was arrested on charges of having killed a young man with at least one shot in the chest who, according to him, tried to usurp a piece of land he owned on Friday in Benavídez, Tigre's district.
The attacker, identified as
Juan Carlos Cejas
, is accused of the murder of
Marcos Javier Verón (27)
, and will be investigated by the prosecutor in charge of the case, Laura Marina Capra, head of the Functional Instruction Unit (UFI) of Benavídez .
Verón had several criminal records and had been in prison until 2016, convicted of "aggravated theft".
He lived in the same neighborhood.
In addition, the prosecutor Capra will make a determination regarding the procedural status of Cejas considering the testimonies of the victim's mother, her family and witnesses to the fact, who maintain that the property had no owner and that a second person involved who accompanied the accused also fired .
The reference is for a brother of Cejas, 47, who was released.
As
Clarín
learned
, the man
managed to prove that he was the owner of the property
they had tried to usurp.
According to the spokespersons, Verón's murder occurred on a piece of land located on the corner of Tomás Godoy Cruz and Rivarola streets, in the "El Arco" neighborhood, surrounded by several private neighborhoods and about eight blocks from the Pan-American highway and close by. of Nordelta.
He tried to usurp a piece of land in Benavídez and the owner killed him with a bullet.
According to the police version, the youths were inside the place when they were surprised by Cejas and his brother, with whom an argument ensued.
At that moment, the now detainee drew a weapon and fired at least one shot.
Verón was seriously injured and was rushed to the Pacheco Hospital, where he died within minutes of entering.
Meanwhile, the brothers were arrested and agents from the 4th police station.
de Benavídez carried out two searches of their homes in search of the murder weapon, but obtained a negative result, the sources detailed.
After the first inquiries and testimony taking, the prosecutor Capra granted the release of the older brother and requested preventive detention for the 43-year-old as the material author of the crime, which she will investigate this Monday.
After that step, you must determine if Cejas acted in "legitimate defense".
However, Vanesa, Verón's mother, assured this Sunday in dialogue with the
C5N
channel
that the land in question "has no owner" and that her son
had bought "a box" days ago to settle in the place.
The woman, who has already provided her testimony to the Justice, commented that "there were always people who fought to get in there", and that a neighbor wrote to her son to suggest that he build his precarious home in the place.
"He was putting up the walls and this person appeared
(by Cejas) running next to another, the two armed," he said, adding that at that moment they warned him of the situation, so he approached the field.
Vanesa asserted that there was no discussion or confrontation, but that the defendant and his brother began to shoot their son "without saying a word," until "they hit him in the heart and he fell on his face to the floor."
In the lot there were already materials to build a box.
The dead young man's mother said that the land "had no owner."
"I got in to get it out and they kept pulling, I told them I was going to get it out and they kept pulling, I felt the bullets on the sides of my head, all the neighbors are as witnesses," he added through tears.
In addition, he pointed out against some transcendent versions in the media that assume that his son was usurping the land and that Cejas acted "in self-defense": "It's a lie, there are three houses there of people who are relatives and between them they put everything together" .
"It is a very small neighborhood and we all know each other,
I never thought that this guy was going to take my son's life
,
" he
said.
"The whole neighborhood knows what he was, I want justice to be done for my son, I'm not going to leave this like that," the woman concluded.
With information from Télam
GL