Delfina Pan's designs and photographs remain on her professional Instagram account.
A
collage
of soccer player Leonel Messi is the latest publication of this 28-year-old Argentine, murdered on November 29 outside her apartment in Miami Beach by a coworker whom she feared.
Agustín Lucas Mariani, 20, waited for her to arrive from the
Kansas Bar & Grill
, a restaurant on the popular Lincoln Road where they worked, he as a bartender and she as a waitress, a brother of the young woman told the newspaper La Nación .
Then Mariani stabbed her to death.
According to Pan's family and friends, the young man was obsessed with her and harassed her.
That day, they were both on duty at the premises, but he, who had to finish his shift around midnight, left shortly after she left.
Seeing him at home, Pan asked a neighbor not to leave her alone.
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“Delfina asks Michelle (her neighbor) not to leave and they talk at a table.
This
kid
tells her that he was going to New York tomorrow and that if she could go with him.
Delfina obviously says no and immediately starts attacking her, "said her brother, based on what the local authorities have told the family.
"He attacks her determined to kill her,"
said her father, José María Pan.
After stabbing her, Mariani stabbed herself in the chest, said the neighbor, the main witness in the investigation, but did not die.
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Miami Beach police reported on Twitter that they responded to a call at an apartment complex on Harding Avenue and found “a man and a woman with apparent stab wounds.
They were both transported to Jackson Memorial Hospital. "
The young woman died from her injuries.
Pan, who studied graphic design at the University of Buenos Aires, moved to the United States and shared his projects as a
freelancer
from his social networks
.
In a 2019 photo, he said that he still had “a long way to go” to where he dreamed of being professionally.
In a 2020 video he is seen painting.
"Thanks to the quarantine we met again," he wrote about his passion.
Delfina Pan in a 2019 post on her professional Instagram account.
"They took from me the most important person I had in my life,
they took from me who with our mistakes and defects was there for me every second since I arrived in this country, you have been there since I met you more than 20 years ago", a friend published in a message that the Argentine media recovers.
"I have to say goodbye and in the most tragic way imagined," he regretted after saying that the day before he had seen her when he came to greet her and give her a hug.
Mariani, also Argentine, has been charged with murder, CNN reported Monday.
He is recovering from his self-inflicted injuries and refused to testify to authorities.
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According to the outlet, the knife he used to murder her matches one that had been lost in the restaurant where they worked.
The young woman had denounced to her bosses the harassment of which she was a victim, the newspaper El Clarín reported.
“Delfina is deceased and we are all in mourning.
The restaurant is closed to accompany the family.
We are not going to give statements ", they responded to the media.
Mariani had started working at the premises a few months ago, although on the LinkedIn network she described herself as a "cabin crew member seeking to enter the aeronautical industry."
A friend of the young woman, quoted by Clarín, declared that there were other violent incidents.
"She was afraid that this would happen
,
"
lamented the young woman who indicated that the harassment began about three months ago.
According to its portfolio, in 2018 Pan created Attic Salt Agency, an agency for “audiovisual content, brand management and digital communication”.
"You were a brave person who dared to go out and seek a better life, even having it, but with blind and sure faith that life had more to give you, lucky all of us who crossed paths with you and those who were able to know your energy," wrote another of her friends.