While
Daniel Barrientos (55)
was fired by friends, colleagues and family, a series of raids were carried out near the crime scene.
In addition,
Alex Gabriel Barone
, the first suspect to be arrested on Monday, was being investigated by the prosecutor Gastón Duplaá.
His lawyer denounces that the Buenos Aires Police accused him due to the pressures of the case.
Investigation sources confirmed to
Clarín
that Barone had been transferred to the courts of La Matanza to be investigated and the accused testified.
"I have recommended that he testify. He has answered questions from the prosecutor. He has facts that are going to be corroborated. In the recognition there is a person who points it out and there is another who does not," said his lawyer Vicente Huaman Centeno.
"My defendant states that he entered his home at 0 and then he leaves after 5:30 a.m. During that time he can prove that he was there with another person. She can eventually be summoned to testify to verify her version," said Centeno .
Barone works as a bus driver and, always according to his story, he went to work to take a passenger and continued with his workday.
The defendant's sister also spoke of Alex's arrest: "There is no evidence.
It's a parsley
, because instead of looking for who really killed the driver of the 620 line, they grabbed my brother."
Daniel Barrientos, the bus driver murdered in a robbery in Virrey del Pino
"My brother was working, he was at my house all night. There are cameras.
There are cameras in the garden where you can see that my brother's car and my brother were at home all night
," he added.
Thus, in addition to denying his participation in the event, the young man denied knowing the two fugitives that the police are looking for at this time.
Barone was captured when he was traveling in a Gray Chevrolet Corsa along Route 3 and Guanabara Street, in Virrey del Pino.
He was arrested this Monday and has a record for robbery in 2019, when he was a minor.
Yesterday afternoon, the detainee, who has a 2019 record for aggravated robbery, was recognized in a lineup by at least one witness, sources confirmed.
Police sources confirmed to
Clarín
that raids ordered by the justice system were carried out to find the two fugitives.
He went about 10 blocks from the crime scene looking for a new suspect.
Gabriel Alejandro Barone, the second detainee for the crime of bus driver Daniel Barrientos, in Virrey del Pino, La Matanza.
In one of them they arrested a second suspect.
Sources of the case indicated that it would be a relative of the first detainee and that he would be around 25 years old.
Police identified him as Gabriel Alejandro Barone.
The last good-bye
The wake began at 8:00 p.m. in the "Nuestra Señora del Valle" funeral home, located at kilometer 20 of Route 3, in Gregorio de Laferrere.
In the midst of deep pain, his remains were transferred to the La Matanza cemetery around 1:30 p.m., escorted by a caravan of bus drivers that followed the funeral procession.
The fact
Daniel Barrientos was killed this Monday at 4:30 in the morning.
Two people entered the bus on line 620 at Bernardino Escribano y Cullen, in the Vernazza neighborhood of La Matanza.
The thieves were driving a car, they crossed the path of the bus and, once they managed to make it stop, they got in and threatened everyone with weapons with the intention of stealing their belongings.
Among the few passengers at that time was a young woman named Yamila, accompanied by her 8-year-old daughter with a disability, sitting in the first seat, and a City Police officer.
According to the investigators, while one was aiming at the woman to
steal her backpack, the other attacked Barrientos, who was still behind the wheel
.
While they were going down, always according to his statement, the policeman identified himself and started a shootout.
At the scene, they found a sheath on the panel next to the driver and a deformed lead.
In the rest of the scene, another nine 9-mm pods were on the floor of the bus and another six pods below.
The officer from the Urban Containment Operations Department (DUOC), Barracas headquarters, of the City Police, who was returning to his house in La Matanza, was the main witness to the sequence.
According to his account, he waited for them to get off the bus to identify himself.
A few minutes later they found a burned Fiat Siena, similar to the one that was identified by witnesses as the one used by the criminals to escape.
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