He bought a sports car and three days later he was shot in the chest to steal it

01/24/2021 17:38

• Clarín.com

• Police

Updated 01/24/2021 6:13 PM

Two crimes shook the western area of ​​Greater Buenos Aires in less than 24 hours.

In both cases, attempted theft of vehicles.

Around 23 on Saturday they assassinated

Alan Lautaro Bravo (20)

to steal his Peugeot RCZ, a sports car that he had bought three days ago.

Earlier, during the early hours of the same day,

Matías Ezequiel Banegas (30)

was shot to the temple in front of Antonella, his girlfriend.

Both tried to defend themselves from the theft of their cars, although judicial sources confirmed to

Clarín

that there are no links between the cases and they have not identified those responsible.

Alan was at his home in La Tablada, with a friend and his girlfriend.

Right on the border with Lomas del Mirador, in Pedro Goyena and Las Heras.

He was barely 20 years old and

three days ago he had bought a Peugeot RCZ

, valued at two and a half million pesos.

The thieves did not take the Peugeot RCZ.

The young man worked in a transport company with his brother and from the age of 18 he had gone to live alone.

He rented an apartment, and later bought his first car, a Citroën DS3, which they had also wanted to steal from him.

"Never stop dreaming and believing in your dreams. Welcome," he

wrote on his Facebook two days before he died.

He is seen posing, leaning on the hood of his new car, as if he were introducing it to his followers.

Those who knew him do not rule out that he has resisted giving it up, "because of how it was and all that it cost him to get it," they explain.

Alan got into his car, which was parked on the side of his house.

From inside the property, his friend saw everything, witnessed the attack.

Alan loved cars.

I had already owned a DS3.

As the investigators were able to establish, it was two people who approached him.

They came walking and pointed a gun at him.

The shot entered him through the chest, on the left side, and exited through the back.

The neighbors heard the shots and tried to assist him at the scene, but he was already dead when they transferred him to the Balestrini Hospital in Ciudad Evita.

Desperate, the friend called Alan's godmother, a policewoman with whom the young man had lived for some years.

"Lately he lived working. He got up at 5 in the morning, all

to raise the money and buy that car. He

was very supportive, he collaborated with the popular pots of the neighborhood to help people who had a bad time during the pandemic," they said to

Clarín

.

Everyone agrees that "he liked to progress" and that he "had a lot of projects" to accomplish.

"The only thing I can say is that please don't have more Alan! The Matanza is getting worse and worse so I decided to move away. It is very sad what happened. We want justice," said Aldana, a cousin of the victim.

Monica, the victim's aunt, said goodbye to him on social networks:

"Rest in peace, nephew. And those who cut off your wings, may God and the weight of justice fall on them. Because you were a hardworking kid and you had what it cost you with sacrifice. Justice. "

The investigation for the crime was in the hands of the prosecutor Gastón Duplaá, of the UFI specialized in Homicides of La Matanza.

At the moment, according to

Télam

, he ordered to collect the images of the security cameras in the houses in the neighborhood and to raise the fingerprints that were on the vehicle to try to identify those responsible for the crime.

A murdered prison

A few hours before the Bravo crime, an agent of the Federal Penitentiary Service (SPF) was murdered in front of his girlfriend, in Merlo.

It is about Matías Ezequiel Banegas, 30, who was attacked by two people.

He died after being shot in the head.

They shot to death an agent of the Federal Penitentiary Service in Merlo.

The victim was identified as Matías Ezequiel Banegas.

The main hypothesis is that it was an attempted robbery.

The incident occurred at the intersection of Pearson and San Lorenzo streets, in that town in the west of the Buenos Aires suburbs.

According to the sources, the police from the 1st police station.

de Merlo arrived at the scene after a call to 911 from a neighbor who heard shots and found Peugeot 208 on the sidewalk, crashed into a newspaper stall and with the front doors open.

As they approached, the agents saw that in the driver's seat there was a dead man, who had a gunshot wound to the right temple.

Banegas, who would have turned 31 within a month, was an agent belonging to the SPF who served in Devoto prison.

The 208 of Banegas, with the driver's window exploded by the bullet that killed him.

Next to the car, the police found the victim's partner, Antonella (22), who told investigators that they were surprised by a Renault Kangoo utility vehicle with two men, that both criminals got out, and when Banegas reversed to try to flee , one of them fired two shots. 

One of those projectiles hit Banegas' head and the attackers fled the scene, without committing the robbery.

In the case, titled "homicide", the prosecutor Javier María Ghessi, from the Morón prosecutor's office, intervenes, who ordered the replacement of municipal and private chambers in order to identify the perpetrators of the act.

"How unfair is the life that is charged to the best, how unfair it is that they take your life when you were just starting out, what pain and anger to know that it was for something material. I hope they rot in hell, here and in the other Life, those poorly born. We are going to meet again, dear cousin. So generous and good that you went with everyone. It seemed yesterday that you lent me your car so that I can encourage myself to drive and we take that Crown. Justice for Matías Banegas. RIP, "

Florence, his cousin, fired him on social media.

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