A 49-year-old man
shot and killed his 2-year-old son in the head
in Córdoba.
The man confessed the episode shouting at the hospital.
He claimed it was an accident when he was trying to commit suicide, but the authorities distrusted his version and detained him.
The violent episode occurred in General Levalle, 280 kilometers south of the province of Córdoba.
To approach the home where the minor lived, the man violated a restriction measure that had been imposed on him in the last few hours after a
complaint of gender violence.
According to
Cadena 3
, the suspect forcibly entered the house and took the child.
Hours later, he shot her inside a car.
Once the incident occurred, he took the minor to the Luis Rodríguez Hospital, who was still alive despite the shot to his head.
The child died later at the Río Cuarto Hospital.
According to local media, the man entered the local medical center shouting and confessed that he had shot him.
According to his first version, collected by
El Doce
, he said that
he was trying to take his own life when his gun jammed and he shot his son.
However, the authorities distrust the man's explanation, since he would have been involved in an argument between the man and his ex-partner, the mother of the child whom he shot "
intentionally"
, according to the initial suspicion of the Public Prosecutor's Office.
He was detained in Laboulaye and will be transferred to Córdoba.
He is charged with "homicide qualified by the bond and by transversal gender violence", by resolution of the prosecutor Georgina Osella.
Once his situation is resolved, he will be housed in a prison in the capital of Córdoba, as specified by the Public Prosecutor's Office (MPF),
La Voz del Interior indicated.
The man worked in a field in Vicuña Mackenna, a town in Córdoba located 50 kilometers west of General Levalle.
He had been in a relationship with his wife and mother of his son for eight years.
Due to recent attacks, the woman decided to move to Levalle.
According to local media, the child's mother had made a complaint this Wednesday for gender violence, for which Justice ordered a restriction measure to prevent the man from approaching her home.
In the last ten years in Argentina there has been an average of one femicide every 30 hours.
According to the latest report from the Women's Office of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation, during 2020, 287 fatalities were recorded: 251 of direct femicide and 36 of linked femicide.
Most murders occur in the victims' homes and are committed by partners or exes.
If you have any questions or emergencies, call 144.
Where to call
Line 144
Care for women in situations of violence.
Line 137
Attention to Victims of Family Violence.
911 Emergencies