Rubén Alberto Guzmán (58) and Patricia Alejandra Rigatuso (55) dedicated their lives to music.
He, as a fan of blues and rock.
She, as a dancer and tango teacher.
On February 12, both of them arrived with their 13-year-old son at their house in José Ingenieros at 1800, in the Arroyito neighborhood, in Rosario, where two thieves assaulted them.
It all ended in tragedy: to defend his family, Rubén confronted one of the criminals, who
was in the middle of a temporary exit
, and received a bullet in the abdomen.
He agonized until this Saturday at the Clemente Álvarez Emergency Hospital.
The musician became
the 100th victim this year
in a city plagued by reckoning, most of it linked to drug trafficking, and where insecurity reigns.
"The projectile injured several organs," said the director of the health center, Jorge Bitar, about Guzmán's state of health.
His wife was injured in the knee.
She has been operated on twice since she was treated at the Centennial Hospital.
"
Dear partners, we regret to announce the death of Mr. Rubén Guzmán, who had recently been injured in an act of violence. We
join the whole family in a hug at this time of such deep pain
," they wrote on the wall of Facebook of Club Náutico Sportivo Avellaneda.
The couple was the promoter of the renowned milonga El Faro, which operated on the Isla de los Inventos, a recreational and cultural space in the municipality of Rosario.
Rubén was a fan of the blues and played the guitar.
"The entire tango environment in the city is united and collaborating with what is possible", one of his relatives told the newspaper
La Capital
.
Guzmán had formed different bands from Rosario such as Chapa Blues and El Último Tren, where he was the main voice and played the guitar.
"
Today Rubén Guzmán, my friend, left... colleagues in the Chapa Blues group from Rosario, Argentina... good times. Friend... unforgettable, always in our hearts...", one
of his colleagues said goodbye to him in that band.
The moment of the deadly attack.
According to her profile on the web,
"Pata" Rigatuso
is a classical-contemporary dancer graduated from the Institute of Dance, Expression and Movement (IDAM) of Rosario.
She was a member of the Ballet Group of that institution between 1983 and 1988.
In addition, she has been dedicated to the research and development of tango dance since 2003. And she is a teacher at both the Club Náutico Sportivo Avellaneda and the Parque Alem Cultural Center.
The fact
In the images from the security cameras, which recorded the entire sequence, it can be seen when the victims arrive at their home.
One of the thieves approaches walking slowly,
pushing his accomplice who is in a wheelchair
.
When the couple gets out of the Fiat Strada truck, the assault begins and Guzmán confronts the offender.
It seemed that everything was over.
But the assailant returns and shoots the man and the woman, who are left lying on the sidewalk.
The shot couple.
A few hours later, the Police found the stolen van on 5600 Labardén Street, about ten blocks from the crime scene.
Two days later , Miguel Ángel Arce (40) and his son Ariel Nicolás Arce (20)
were arrested .
The eldest of them is the author of the shots and was on temporary leave at the time of the attack for a unified sentence of 8 years and 8 months, handed down on May 22, 2018, for "qualified robbery, unlawful deprivation of liberty,
attempted against authority and minor injuries
", in two events, the last one occurred on May 24, 2016.
According to the sources consulted by
Clarín
, he had served two thirds of the sentence.
According to prosecutor Alejandro Ferlazzo, in charge of the investigation, after committing the attack, the eldest of the Arces
went back to jail
(Prison Unit 6) on their own.
The musician Rubén Alberto Guzmán (58) was murdered by a thief in Rosario.
His wife, the dancer and tango teacher Patricia Alejandra Rigatuso (55) was shot in the leg.
His son was
in a wheelchair since he had been shot in a robbery
.
It all happened just three blocks from where the architect Joaquín Fernando Pérez (34)
was murdered on October 19, 2021
, also to steal his car.
The man died in the arms of his wife, with whom he had a 2-year-old daughter, in Juan B. Justo around 1700.
In the last few hours, the homicide figures so far in 2023 in the Rosario department have risen to 102, with the crime of a 33-year-old man in Villa Gobernador Gálvez and that of a 17-year-old teenager in an alleged narco adjustment in the west of the city.
Joaquín Pérez (34), the architect murdered in Rosario during an assault.
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