The renowned former driver of Turismo Carretera (TC) of the Chevrolet brand, Carlos Garrido was found beaten to death this Tuesday in his home in La Colmenita.near the city of Mar del Plata and, although the event is still unclear, investigators do not rule out that it was a robbery.
Garrido was 65 years old and was found dead in his home, located at kilometer 21.5 of Route 88, police sources and local media reported. Prosecutor Alejandro Pelegrinelli, in charge of the investigation, does not rule out any hypothesis and analyzes the victim’s inner circle, which presented two severe head injuries.
Garrido was found beaten to death this Tuesday in his home in La Colmenita.
Besides, The body had been dragged about 5 meters to the place where it was found and his car, a Citroën C4, was found on fire about 300 meters away. The element with which Garrido was hit has not yet been identified, while the body did not present defensive wounds.
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The police found another person at the crime scene unconscious man taken to hospital General Interzonal de Agudos (HIGA), where he remained hospitalized under police custody, according to reports The Capital of Mar del Plata. The subject identified himself as the landlord of the property and claimed that he had been attacked by intruders and that that was why he had vanished. According to him he detailed Clarionthe relationship between the two and one version indicates that they had recently had a strong argument with Garrido.
The victim’s car, a Citroën C4, was found on fire about 300 meters from the house.
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Who was Carlos Garrido
Garrido was a renowned TC pilot in the 80s and 90s. According Argentine Newsin Mar del Plata they describe him as a person who was friendly to everyone and had personality but, at the same time, he was reserved in his personal life and was constantly open to dialogue.
Likewise, his family was a distributor of Quilmes beer in the Gaucho area and had kiwi plantations. Beyond these businesses that they carried out, The Garridos were considered “conflictive” in Mar del Plata and have the regrettable antecedent of the murder of Carlos Alberto Garrido’s custodian.the athlete’s father, in 1998. Police officer Ricardo Yori, while trying to avoid a leak, was shot in the head.
This familiar panorama and the comments about them in the city made the Mar del Plata authorities consider the hypothesis that The murder of Carlos Garrido could have been more than a simple robbery attempt.
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Garrido, who started in the zones on the El Santo circuit, He had an outstanding career in Road Tourism, the most important category in the country, and became a figure of the Chevrolet brand., a team of which he was a fan as a child. At the beginning, the pilot bought a TC from the Southeast from Héctor Laurenti, from Coronel Vidal, he raced with engines from engineer Jhoseph and later with those from Jorge Reymonte from Balcarce.
As soon as he arrived at Turismo Carretera, Garrido bought a street Chevrolet and assembled it in Balcarce. Before making his debut at the Autódromo de Buenos Aires, he was accompanied by Roberto Mouras, whom he declared that “up in the car he made everything easy.” The outstanding driver won three consecutive champions in the TC del Southeast and in the Turismo Carretera he won two races.
Lately, Garrido was seen closer to karting, a discipline in which his son Diego became champion in 2019 of the Master category.
ML / ED