The Buenos Aires police arrested a new suspect of joining the gang that murdered five people during a neighborhood confrontation happened two weeks ago in a taken property In the town of Gonzalez Catanand that’s it There are five arrested in the casereported judicial and police sources.
This is a man identified by Justice and the Police as Marciano Aguiar Gonzálezwho was captured by police Departmental Investigation Delegation (DDI) La Matanza in a country house located on the same property where the massacre occurred, where the accused was hiding.
Shooting in González Catán: the leader of the organization that illegally took and sold land was arrested
Those arrested so far
According to what was reported by judicial sources, there was an arrest warrant against Aguiar González – along with six other men and a woman who are still at large – as suspected of being part of the band of “delegates” what shot at the people who had bought the lotsduring a dispute over money and works related to those lands.
The man was left at the disposal of the prosecutor Carlos Arribasfrom the Homicide Thematic Functional Instruction Unit (UFI) of the Judicial Department of La Matanza, who will investigate him this Thursday.
Aguiar González joins the other four detainees in the case so far, all of them accused of “homicide aggravated by the premeditated participation of two or more people (five acts)” and attempted murder” of another six.
Those arrested are Juana Correa Villalba (43), of Paraguayan nationality and alleged leader of the gang; Walter Escobar (40), Wilson Escobar, nicknamed “El Chino” (36), and a fourth man who after the shooting was admitted in serious condition to the Rivadavia Hospital and whose identity is still unknown because he is undocumented.
The owner of the land where five people died in La Matanza spoke: “The issue was getting dense”
How was the massacre?
The incident occurred on January 14 in the vicinity of an abandoned thicket from the 8 de Diciembre neighborhood, near the intersection of Debussy and Vega, in González Catán, La Matanza district.
According to sources, a neighborhood meeting was held there in which people settled irregularly on those lands participated with the so-called “delegates” of the area, who apparently had sold those taken lands to about 500 families.
Always in accordance with the investigations, in that meeting There was an argument over money between the residents of the neighborhood and the “delegates”, in the middle of which they began to threaten each other.
Apparently, in the group there were three armed people of Paraguayan nationality who, when the discussion escalated, first began to shoot in the air and then at the people in the neighborhood who went towards them to surround them.
A police spokesperson indicated that the shooters escaped after firing at least 40 shots with 9 millimeter caliber pistols, so later the experts who worked in the area were able to collect some used pods.
As a result of the shooting, five people, identified as Tomás Waldo Velázquez Chávez (28), Eduardo Rivera (23), Gregorio Mamani, Leonel Enzo Tuco Tapia (29) and Luis Fernando Bascope (16), were killed.
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