10/26/2020 9:50 AM
Clarín.com
Police
Updated 10/26/2020 9:50 AM
The images are clear: the Volkswagen Fox driven by the bus driver Sergio Damián Gerez (29) passes by and three criminals who were walking along a stretch of dirt on Coraceros Street, in Virrey del Pino, La Matanza district, go running to rob him.
It would all end with the victim shot dead.
"They didn't steal anything from him, he had the booty, his cell phone, he had everything. They didn't take anything from him. I want to know why they murdered him. I don't know if it was an attempted robbery," said his mother, Josefina Romero (53), at the wake.
Everything happened this Sunday, at six in the morning.
A friend had lent Gerez his car to drive to his house, about 20 blocks away.
"I want the guilty to appear, I want justice. They are murderers. I do not want them dead, I want them imprisoned," said the woman.
The moment prior to the assault where the bus driver Sergio Gerez (29) was killed to steal his car in Virrey del Pino, La Matanza.
Romero said that "you can see in the video how they shoot him, but at no time do they try to rob him," not even his cell phone or the booty, who was leaning on top of the Fox steering wheel.
The victim's mother also said that, according to the police, "there are two boys who were witnesses" and they reported that after the fact the three perpetrators of the crime "pushed the car."
"We do not know for what purpose, if it was to throw him into the ditch or to try to get the car out of him. They pushed the car and threw it into a ditch," he added.
The woman also commented that the ambulance "took 40 minutes" to arrive at the scene and in this regard she said: "I don't know if they could have saved him, but they didn't do enough."
Romero also ruled out the possibility that his son had a conflict with someone who wanted to kill him, stating that "he had no problems with anyone."
"My son was 29 years old, he loved being a driver. He wanted to be a bus driver, he fought hard to have his job. His passion was River and the bus," he added.
Sergio Damián Gerez (29), in his work as a bus driver.
He was assassinated in an attempted robbery in Virrey del Pino, La Matanza.
"It makes me suspect that they killed him by mistake. He did no harm to anyone. I want those murderers to be in prison, to know why they killed my son, if it was an attempted robbery or if it was a mistake," he concluded the woman in tears.
Judicial spokespersons indicated that although the results of the autopsy are expected in the next few hours, the experts believe that it was a 9-millimeter caliber projectile that caused an entry hole in the victim's left shoulder.
As a result of the crime, workers of line 106, companions of the victim, cut a section of route 3 on Sunday afternoon in demand of justice and greater security measures in the area, where on October 1 they also killed with bullets to another bus operator, Pablo Flores, on line 218.
The investigation involves the prosecutor Federico Medone, from the Functional Instruction Unit (UFI) thematic of Homicides in La Matanza, who ordered a series of procedures to locate the criminals.
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