Double femicide in Los Hornos: a policeman killed his partner and a trans woman, and committed suicide

Correspondent La Plata

05/10/2021 18:43

• Clarín.com

• Police

Updated 05/10/2021 6:55 PM

The tranquility of the siesta in a peripheral neighborhood of the town of Los Hornos was shaken by the brutality of a double femicide.

A police officer

killed his partner and a trans woman

in their home of 164 between 62 and 63, 30 blocks from the commercial center of that town in the La Plata district.

After that massacre he escaped and a police patrol found him at 166 and 60. Surrounded and without the possibility of escape,

he killed himself

.

Apparently he shot himself with the same weapon he used for the murders.

The two victims died almost instantly, according to what

Clarín was

able to find out

from police sources.

It was the residents of the place who called 911 when they heard shouts of a fight and the first shots.

The attack took place this Monday afternoon, around 2:30 p.m.

Photo: Mauricio Nievas

When the SAME ambulance arrived, the doctors found who would be the policeman's girlfriend lying on the sidewalk, shot.

And inside the house to the trans woman, also with a wound that caused her death.

According to the reconstruction carried out by the investigators up to this moment, the officer identified as

Juan Ignacio Soto (23)

, who worked in a distribution of the Buenos Aires capital, arrived at his house around 2:30 p.m. on Monday.

The reasons for the alleged fight are unknown for now.

After executing the two women he escaped in a VW Gol.

The police officer Juan Manuel Soto killed his girlfriend, Florencia Sandoval, and a neighbor, Cielo De Lucca.

Then he escaped and when he was surrounded, he committed suicide.

A few blocks from the place of the murders, they found Soto and saw that he got out of the car and entered a house in 166 between 59 and 60.

"When the patrol agents gave him a halt, a detonation was heard," as recorded in the first parts of the Buenos Aires Province.

Paramedics managed to transfer him to an emergency room.

Soto died from

the bullet that entered his head

, after a couple of hours of agony.

Neighbors called 911 when they heard the loud screams, but when the police arrived the victims were already dead.

Photo: Mauricio Nievas

In judicial sources they told this newspaper that the police partner was

Florencia Sandoval (23)

and the other victim was known in the neighborhood as

Cielo De Lucca (20)

.

They both knew each other because the trans woman lived on the same block where the house where the murders occurred.

At the scene, the officers seized the officer's regulation pistol, the Bersa Thunder brand, which will be subjected to the examinations.

The case, meanwhile, was in the hands of UFI No. 8 - in charge of Martín Almirón - which is carrying out the investigation.

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