06/15/2021 5:11 PM
Clarín.com
Police
Updated 06/15/2021 5:11 PM
Gloria Zimmerman Domínguez (29) said goodbye to Benerio Ocampo, her husband, very early in the morning.
Then he worked at his kiosk, like every day, with his five-year-old son.
When it closed, around 3 p.m., Gloria agreed to meet with a person to buy a hot dog machine that she could incorporate into the business she had with her partner, according to the hypothesis that researchers are now using.
The last that was heard of her was recorded by a security camera that filmed her walking, around 3:30 p.m., walking with her son and a man wearing a gray T-shirt and pants.
They reached a property on Camino de Cintura (Route 4) and Calle Remedios de Escalada, where a rehabilitation clinic used to operate and is now abandoned.
In that place the brutal attack took place: Gloria was
beaten to death in front of her son
.
The suspect was identified, but he is a fugitive and at this time he is intensely wanted by the Buenos Aires Police.
The murderer's sister would have recognized him in the images of the security cameras: he is Juan Leonardo Doval (41).
The man
has a record and was detained in a federal prison
.
His sister testified at the prosecution, which led to a series of raids to find the main suspect in the crime.
Gloria Cristina Zimmerman Domínguez (29), the woman murdered in Villa Luzuriaga.
It is not clear how they met, if through social networks or in the neighborhood.
Investigators aim to search for more details about the assailant to find him.
One of the suspicions is that it is a neighbor, who lived in this usurped property and who somehow contacted the victim to offer him this product.
Benerio Monges Ocampos (34), his partner, told television channels: "At 8 o'clock they went to the newsstand and I didn't know anything else. I didn't talk to Gloria with during the day."
Gloria and Benerio
are migrants of Paraguayan nationality
who years ago settled in Villa Luzuriaga, La Matanza.
Neighbors in the area described the family as "very hardworking" and, shocked by the violence of the attack, held a court to demand justice and more security in the area.
The expertise of the Police at the crime scene.
Photo Lucia Merle
The crime occurred sometime between 3:30 pm and 6:30 pm on Monday in the abandoned property on Route 4. They discovered it thanks to the complaint of a group of workers who
found the boy crying behind a fence
.
Luis Bocetto, one of those who assisted the boy, related: "I asked him what happened, why he was crying, he was heartbroken. And he told me: '
the man told me that he was going to come and look for me and he did not come again
."
To help him, they guided him out of the abandoned property and took him to a service station a few meters away.
According to the testimony of Bocetto, who is a street vendor and works in a corralón in the area, they bought him a soda and sweets until he calmed down.
"
The man killed mom,
" he described and detailed: "He
hit her with a stick
."
He also managed to say that he had his mother's cell phone while watching videos, apparently while the attack was taking place, and that later the attacker took it from him.
This morning, Buenos Aires Police officers were raking the area to try to find him.
The place where the femicide occurred.
Photo Lucia Merle
Before escaping, he told the boy to wait for him, that he was going to return, but as the hours passed, when it got dark, the boy "
went out because he was afraid
."
This happened around 6.30pm, when the police arrived at the scene and found the victim's lifeless body.
Judicial sources confirmed to
Clarín
that "a large amount of expert evidence, such as hair, blood and fingerprints" was found at the crime scene, which will allow the investigation to advance.
Also, that the main hypothesis that they are working on at the moment refers to the "deception to buy a panchera" so that the woman would agree to go to this meeting point.
The autopsy confirmed that the woman suffered a "
very important head trauma
."
Sources with access to the file informed
Clarín
that the experts found
signs of sexual abuse
on the victim's body
, for which they ordered "a series of complementary tests."
The investigation was left in the hands of the La Matanza Homicide UFI, in charge of Gastón Duplaá.
Meanwhile, the boy was returned to his family pending psychological support.
Gender violence
From January 1 to May 31, 2021, there were 115 femicides, 6 transfemicides and 8 linked femicides of men, according to data from the “Adriana Marisel Zambrano” Observatory of Femicides in Argentina, who directs La Casa del Encuentro.
63 percent of the women were killed inside their home and 58% by their partners or ex-partners.
The Province of Buenos Aires is -by far- the one that registered the most femicides so far this year, with 38 of the cases.
In the last ten years in Argentina there is an average of one femicide every 30 hours.
According to statistics from the Office of Domestic Violence of the Supreme Court, in 2018 alone there were 278. Most murders occur in the homes of the victims and are committed by partners or exes.
Where to call
Line 144
Care for women in situations of violence.
Line 137
Attention to Victims of Family Violence.
911 Emergencies
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