:format(webp)/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/grupoclarin/GMD27RVBDZCX3OU3JHHXTY2DJQ.jpg "The father of the 13-year-old girl murdered in an assault in La Matanza spoke")
Frans Campos Rioja, father of the 13-year-old girl who was killed in Virrey del Pino in an attempted robbery, spoke to the media this Thursday after the murder of his daughter. “I found her face down, she was barely breathing. I thought it was the effect of the pepper spray. ‘Calm down, calm down, it’s over,’ I told her, but she didn’t answer me, I managed to turn around and saw a pool of blood. From there we went crazy, we lost our calm,” commented Campos Rioja.
“I heard the shots, but I didn’t realize they hit her. I had to open the garage, get the car out and we couldn’t waste time, so we went by motorcycle. I assume the car that is seen (in a security camera video) belongs to the criminals, we don’t know. It must have lasted a minute and a half, they had time to rummage the house. “My wife is dejected,” the man added.
The 13-year-old teenager was murdered this Thursday with a shot to the chest during an attempted robbery in the Buenos Aires town of Virrey del Pino, La Matanza district. The victim’s father was also injured after being beaten by the criminals.
The crime occurred during the morning, around 10, on Machado and Concordia, in the aforementioned town in the La Matanza district.
According to sources, at least two armed criminals tried to rob a man who was with his wife and daughter.
They killed a teenager in La Matanza: what is known
In this context, one of the criminals shot at least once and a projectile hit the teenager, identified as Jennifer Campos Calle (13), at chest level.
Meanwhile, his father, Frans Campos Rioja (34), of Bolivian nationality, was hit hard in the head, sources indicated.
Father and daughter were taken to the Simply Evita hospital in González Catán, where the girl died as a result of the wound received.
“I heard a gunshot, I fell to the floor and when I gathered courage, I left the house and I saw the girl’s father with his head bleeding and I heard a woman’s scream,” said a neighbor, in dialogue with the Crónica channel. HD.
The witness added that she observed a man running out of the place and the teenager’s father asking for help.
“The girl practiced taekwondo. She was an only child. They are normal people, they were not up to anything strange,” said another neighbor.
On the other hand, a friend of Frans said that the man “was investing to make a corralón. “He had his truck and he did the loads,” and that “three or four years ago he lived in the neighborhood.”
Prosecutor Matías Folino, on duty at the La Matanza Homicide Functional Instruction Unit (UFI), is on site to order the first directives.
* With information from Agencia Télam