The 75-year-old woman who was attacked with bullets in the abdomen when she was walking this Friday night in the town of
Lanús
with her nephew - murdered in the same incident - died this Sunday after being hospitalized for more than a day and a half in a health center, judicial sources reported.
Meanwhile, although the autopsy operation is awaited, Germán Zucarelli (46) died as a result of
six shots
he received in the torso area with a .22 caliber firearm.
Judicial sources confirmed to the Télam agency that Ana Russo (75), Zucarelli's aunt, died this Sunday afternoon after being hospitalized for more than 40 hours at the Narciso López hospital with four gunshot wounds to her abdomen area.
In this way, prosecutor María Silvia Bussano, in charge of the Functional Instruction Unit (UFI) 7 of the Avellaneda-Lanús Judicial Department, changed the classification of the incident to "
double homicide
aggravated by the use of a firearm", while awaiting receive the preliminary result of Zucarelli's autopsy.
The crime of the altar boy and his aunt
The double crime occurred around 10:30 p.m. on Friday on General Pico and General Guido streets, about four blocks from the 8th police station.
from the Villa Obrera neighborhood, in the aforementioned district in the southern area of Greater Buenos Aires.
Zucarelli was walking with his aunt when they were both attacked with bullets from a black Ford Ecosport truck and almost without saying a word, so they fell to the ground seriously injured.
"All hypotheses are open at this time and are under analysis.
The motive is not clear
, only that, due to the mechanics of the event,
it would not appear to be a robbery
," explained an investigator.
Investigators and police are working to identify the attackers.
Zucarelli was
the owner of a Santeria
, had active participation in the church in his area, had no children and resided with his parents.
"Today violence takes away a friend, 'El Tano' Germán Zucarelli. A prayer for his eternal rest and that we are left with the memory of a man of faith, a man of solidarity, with virtues and defects like any Christian, with a deep faith in Christ and Mary who are surely already receiving him in their arms," a friend of the victim posted on Facebook.
News in development.
D.S.