09/07/2021 12:25
Clarín.com
Police
Updated 09/07/2021 3:13 PM
After the murder of a repentant man who had testified against a drug boss in Rosario,
another five violent deaths
were known in that city in around 20 hours.
This Monday, after eleven at night, a young man was shot to death in the street.
He was found next to the motorcycle on which he was driving near 2900 Mármol Street, in
Villa Gobernador Gálvez
.
According to the Rosario newspaper
La Capital
, the victim was intercepted by two men who were traveling on a 150cc Honda Titan motorcycle and was wounded
in the thorax and both legs.
Shortly before, around ten o'clock at night, another motorcyclist was found murdered by multiple bullets in Manantiales at 3700 in
the Triángulo neighborhood
, in the west of Rosario.
Garay at 3500, Rosario, the mechanical workshop where this Monday they shot a repentant man who testified against a drug dealer.
Photo: Juan José García.
According to the first investigations, the deceased - still unidentified - was attacked by two men who
shot him while he was riding his motorcycle
.
From the crime scene, the Scientific Police hijacked the motorcycle that the victim was driving and about 12 pods served .22 caliber.
Meanwhile, around seven thirty in the afternoon, another tragic episode occurred in front of a service station located on
Mendoza
Street
and Circunvalación Avenue
, in the western part of the city.
An unidentified man was walking past the front of that CNG station when he was surprised by another who got out of a red truck and
opened fire on him
, after which he escaped aboard the vehicle, which was driven by an accomplice.
According to sources told Télam, the victim was left lying on the beach and when the public emergency service -SIES- arrived, they confirmed his death as a result of
multiple gunshot wounds
that he presented in different parts of the body.
Hitman attack on Gobernador Gálvez, Rosario, Santa Fe. Photo: @JoseljuarezJOSE
The string of victims also included the death of
a brother of the Argentinos Juniors footballer -and former Newell's player-, Miguel Torrén
, who had been hospitalized for twelve days at the Clemente Álvarez Emergency Hospital (Heca), after being shot, also in the Triángulo neighborhood.
Luis Torrén
, 43, had received three shots from a firearm on August 25 in Puerto Argentino at 4200, from two people who were traveling on a motorcycle.
After the attack, the victim was transferred to Heca, where he underwent surgery.
On the night of this Monday it was confirmed that he
had died
.
He is the
third brother of the footballer who loses his life violently
.
Four blocks from where Luis Torrén was killed, his brother,
Gabriel Francisco
, was beaten to death in Passage Rolla at 4000. It was just over a year ago, in May 2020. Gabriel was 36 years old and the father of three children.
A 22-year-old young man was shot to death this Tuesday at noon at Pellegrini 5600. He was the sixth victim in 20 hours in Rosario.
Photo: Juan José García
Meanwhile, on April 24, 2010, a dispute in a field in the area of Qompi and Argentine Aborigines ended with a shot at
Walter Torrén (32)
, who was injured in the shoulder blade and died shortly after.
The last name that was added to the list of fatalities was that of Elías Salinas, 22 years old.
He was found murdered this Tuesday at noon, around 1 pm, in Pellegrini at 500, in front of a delicatessen.
According to sources in the case, Salinas was shot by two men on a motorcycle.
Mechanic assassinated
The most resounding homicide in the last hours was that of Carlos Héctor Argüelles, a 46-year-old mechanic who
had been part of Esteban Lindor Alvarado
(42), prosecuted for drug trafficking, considered one of the largest drug traffickers in Santa Fe and faced with the band Los Monos.
Argüelles was attacked with bullets this Monday afternoon, in a workshop in the west of Rosario, and died after being hospitalized.
According to judicial sources, the victim was
a reserved witness
in a case that had Alvarado as the accused.
Although according to the Police, Argüelles was not a "protected witness", because "he never agreed to enter that protection program."
A 4-year-old boy, injured
At the same time, a four-year-old boy was wounded by two bullets and remains hospitalized.
It was after a man aboard a motorcycle
fired at the front of his house
in the northwestern area of Rosario, police sources reported Tuesday.
The incident occurred in Bielsa at 6000, where at midnight on Monday, two men who were traveling on a motorcycle stopped their march in front of the house where the minor was, one of them got off the road and
fired several shots at the property
.
Although most of the projectiles hit the front of the house, some entered the home and injured the
child, who was playing inside
.
Once the attack was over, the occupants of the motorcycle escaped at full speed, while the wounded man
was rushed
by his father to the Roberto Carra hospital.
There, the doctors confirmed that the boy had
two gunshot wounds
, one in each arm, for which he remains hospitalized in recovery.
The attack was reported to 911, so police personnel were present at the scene and
kidnapped six pods served
inside the attacked house.
At the moment the reasons for the shooting are unknown and the investigation of the case is in the hands of the Rosario prosecutor on duty.
With information from Télam.
LGP
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