"Hide, it's Mario
," a woman's warning to her partner was not enough.
Her ex broke into the house in the early hours of Wednesday morning violently,
with a gun and shouting
.
Alma, the woman's 11-year-old daughter, was
shot dead
and the woman, after an argument and in the middle of a struggle with her ex,
received four
.
However, she managed to snatch the gun from him and
shot
her in the chest.
The violent sequence occurred in
Villa Ponsati
, in La Plata.
It all happened in a humble neighborhood, with dirt streets and mostly sheet metal buildings.
On 120th Street, between 602 and 603.
There,
Mario Carbajal
, 42 years old, violently broke into the house of
Laura Beatriz González
(36), his ex;
who was having dinner with his current partner, and her children, Alma, and a 5-year-old boy.
The noise of the chain with which they secured the entrance door served González to warn his partner who was able to protect the youngest of the children.
But in a matter of seconds, Carbajal had arrived at the scene with
a .22 caliber weapon
with wooden grips and a fanny pack loaded with projectiles, according to
El Día.
The horror was experienced in a sheet metal house in Villa Ponsati.
Carbajal opened fire and one of the bullets
hit the right temple of Alma, 11 years old, who died instantly
.
Then, he grabbed González's partner by the neck while unleashing a series of shots at his ex.
Four
shots hit González
, who, despite his injuries, struggled with his ex and managed to get hold of the gun.
In the middle of the desperate scene,
he shot her in the chest
.
The eyewitness of everything, González's partner, was the one who alerted the Police.
A few minutes later, police personnel from the 16th Police Station and SAME doctors arrived at the bloody scene: they confirmed the death of
Alma Aceval and Mario Carbajal.
Alma Aceval, the 11-year-old girl who was shot to death during the early hours of the morning in La Plata.
The woman, with multiple gunshot wounds, was taken to San Martin Hospital.
There, it was confirmed that she had wounds on both arms, on one of her legs and on her chest.
And although she is out of danger, they will have to perform double surgery.
The Scientific Police experts, who worked at the crime scene, seized a 22 caliber revolver, with no mark or number in sight.
The case was handled by UFI No. 17, by prosecutor María Eugenia Di Lorenzo, and is classified as “double homicide and injuries.”