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16-year-old teenager
who had been arrested in November 2023 accused of shooting to death a former soccer player from the youth divisions of the Club Atlético Ferrocarril Midland during the Merlo match, escaped from a Minor Institute located in the Buenos Aires city of
La Plata
, while the victim's family fears suffering an attack from the fugitive since they reported having received threats on social networks.
Judicial sources confirmed to Télam that the only person accused of the murder of Tomas Sánchez (18) escaped on Friday at noon from the "Eva Perón" Closed Institute for Minors, located at the intersection of streets 520 and 226 in La Plata.
In this regard, the investigators added that the teenager's escape took place
during lunch time
, when a car with food was entering the juvenile center.
After the incident, the prosecutor of Merlo's Liability Court 1, Guillermo Rodríguez Rey, requested that a search be carried out in one of the last homes that the teenager frequented before being arrested.
Meanwhile, the mother of the murdered former soccer player, Mariángeles Alderete, said that
she found out about the escape this Saturday night
through a message she received through the social network Instagram.
"Not even the prosecutor knew that this boy had escaped. I called him to let him know that this boy was a fugitive. It cannot be that we are the ones behind finding out what is being done or what is not being done," the woman claimed with indignation. women.
Mariangeles Alderete with her youngest son, Tomás Sánchez, murdered in Cancha Los Patos, in the Libertad neighborhood of Merlo.
In that sense, Mariángeles continued: "Two days ago the guy was already walking down the street and we didn't know anything.
A puppy or a kitten didn't escape, a murderer escaped."
In addition, Tomás' mother revealed that she is "scared" since she received a series of threats from a false Instagram profile and warned that during the last hours she received information that indicated that the fugitive was "lurking" around Tomás' house. the Sanchez family.
"The threat said that they were going to come look for us one by one.
What I want most is for them to find him, I am not calm today, with my family last night we couldn't sleep," admitted Mariángeles, who after the threats received police custody to prevent a possible attack on your life.
In this context, family and friends of Tomás Sánchez called this Sunday for a march
from the center of the Libertad neighborhood to the place where the former soccer player was murdered,
the "Cancha de Patos" park, and will have as its main slogan the request for recapture. of the alleged murderer.
"We hope that the demonstration will be massive. Many people always accompany us, I hope God wants it to be like that. What I want most is that they find him,
I want to trust that they catch him,"
said Sánchez's mother.
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Tomás Santiago Sánchez (18), former youth player of the Midland club, was murdered by two shots in a park in Merlo.
They are looking for seven fugitives.
Finally, Mariángeles closed: "We did nothing but do justice and ensure that he is where he needs to be."
"And today we have to be guarded and scared without having done anything, it makes you very helpless."
Tomás was in his last year of high school.
He lived with his mother and his 19-year-old brother. He did odd jobs, took care of his grandfather who was in intensive care, and loved motorcycles.
"He loved assembling and disassembling motorcycles, playing ball. He was a friend, he was always surrounded by his friends. The number of people who came to accompany us, to say goodbye to him, was impressive, we couldn't believe it," Mariángeles had told Clarín.
How was the crime of Tomás Sánchez
The murder of Tomás Sánchez occurred
at 1 in the morning on October 29, 2023
, when the young man was with a group of friends and his girlfriend in a park known as "Cancha de Patos", in the Libertad neighborhood, in Merlo.
As the sources explained, it is a square where young people with motorcycles usually go to listen to music.
The place's security cameras recorded the moment in which a group of young people aboard at least nine motorcycles passed near Sánchez, who was on foot, and their crew members rebuked him after an exchange of glances.
After that, one of the motorcyclists got off his motorcycle and began a fist fight with Sánchez, who was dressed in a brown sweatshirt.
In this context, another of the motorcyclists took out a firearm and
began shooting at the 18-year-old young man
, who was shot twice in the abdomen.
According to the spokespersons, as a result of the shots,
Sánchez fell to the ground and died instantly
, while the aggressor fled aboard a white motorcycle.
Also, as seen in the video, the rest of the motorcyclists escaped from the scene when they heard the explosions.
According to judicial sources, the penalty that the young man may face for having committed the crime, although it is not the one expected for an adult, is the one provided for "Attempted homicide" which is equivalent to 10 years and eight months in prison. .