04/07/2021 9:15
Clarín.com
Police
Updated 04/07/2021 10:59
Joaquin left for a few minutes.
For his brothers it was no more than 10 or 15. At the door, a car and a group of friends from Villa Niza, a neighborhood of Banfield, south of the GBA, located behind the Courts of Lomas de Zamora.
The doors were open from the heat and the gunshot rang out at midnight on December 21.
It all happened in Pasaje Merlino 1946, when Miguel Ramón Tuñinali (19) parked in front of the house of his friend, Joaquín Castillo (18).
The young man recognized the horn and
went out to talk with his best friend
.
Outside the scene was the most common.
As they were able to reconstruct through the witnesses' account, Tuñinali was inside the car in the driver's seat.
Next to him, a woman and in the back seat, another couple.
Joaquín stuck his head out of the passenger side window and they began to chat.
Suddenly, his friend pulled a swag from the window
to show him "something
.
"
Inside there was a weapon and it was that same weapon that took his life.
Miguel Ramón Tuñinali (19), son of a Barrabrava boss from Banfield accused of killing his best friend.
Facebook photo
After a few seconds of confusion, they tried to revive Joaquín while Tuñinali tried to run away to avoid being held.
"They said he was in shock. But
he was not so shocked
because he had time to take the gun and gather the scabbard. He was never imprisoned, not a single day. What no one can explain to us is
how you can kill someone and not go to the jail,
"exclaimed Gabriela Castillo (35), one of Joaquín's ten sisters.
After hearing the shot, another of the victim's brothers looked out onto the sidewalk and found him wounded.
The young man died on the way to the Fiorito Prompt Attention Unit (UPA 24 hs.).
Joaquín Castillo would have turned 19 on December 24.
His best friend shot him in the chest three days earlier.
The truth is that the case entered a judicial labyrinth that ended with the freedom of the accused and the anguish of the family.
First, the prosecutor Lorenzo Latorre described the crime as "
manslaughter
" (punishable by six months to three years in prison).
It was based on the account of Miguel Tuñinali, who said that it had been
"an accident"
and that the shooting was unintentional.
Shortly after, and with the testimony of witnesses, he changed the accusation to "
simple homicide
" (it includes a penalty ranging from 8 to 25 years in prison).
Joaquín Castillo (18), murdered by his best friend in Banfield, Lomas de Zamora.
Photo Maxi Failla
"Later, when they denied him the exemption from prison, the lawyer of this person appealed and the Chamber agreed with the prosecutor, it remained as simple homicide. But, when they finally asked for the arrest, the Court of guarantees refused and
changed it again to wrongful death
. Now we have to keep waiting until the appeals are resolved again but, in the meantime,
this person is still free,
"warned Mariela Castillo (37), another sister of the victim.
"What I want is to know what happened to my brother because this person killed him and he has to go to jail," he insisted.
This Wednesday they carry out a new demonstration, from the place of the event to the Courts of Lomas de Zamora, to ask that they resolve the situation and arrest the accused.
Miguel Ramón Tuñinali (19), son of a Barrabrava boss from Banfield accused of killing his best friend.
Facebook photo
"He committed a homicide. If it was simple or guilty, the Justice has to solve it, but he has to go to jail.
What are they going to expect, that he kills another person?
If they know that this person knows how to handle weapons, he cannot If he missed the shot. And if that had happened, he still has to be in prison because he committed a homicide, that's what I can't understand. Why did he have a gun? Why did he take it out? "asked Gabriela. .
According to the victim's family, they receive intimidation on social networks, in the marches they organize and also at the door of the house where Joaquín's brothers live.
They are afraid because the young man
is the son of Miguel Ángel "Miguelito" Tuñinali (42), leader of the Banfield brave gang
, known as "La Banda de Miguel" or "La Banda del Sur".
The boss of the Banfield bar, "Miguelito" Tuñinali, was arrested in 2018 along with his mother, "La Nancy" Burgos.
His father ended up imprisoned in 2018 after 18 raids in Lomas de Zamora in an investigation by the prosecutor Pablo Rossi and the judge of Guarantees Gabriel Vitale.
There also fell the mother of "Miguelito", Nancy Azucena Burgos, better known as "La Nancy", now 59 years old, and her second, Gastón "Pelado" Aralda, 47.
In his house they had found weapons, bullets, money, a bill counter, membership cards, utility bills and fireworks.
They arrested him along with eight people and accused him of illicit association.
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, he was released from prison and is serving house arrest, despite the
multiple criminal cases against him.
"
In that same house he is free
. He walks down the street as if nothing had happened, but he has to be in jail," Gabriela closed.
The boss of the Banfield bar, "Miguelito" Tuñinali, was arrested in 2018 along with his mother, "La Nancy" Burgos.
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