This weekend, from Friday the 16th and until the night of this Sunday June 18, five homicides occurred in Montevideosources from the Montevideo Police Headquarters confirmed to The Observer.
The first of the five cases occurred on Friday night in the neighborhood sayago. a woman of 34 years was killed by firearm shots in a house located on Blanca Luz Brum and Mercedes Pinto streets. In addition to the woman, a 39-year-old man was injured in the attack on the home.
On the afternoon of Saturday June 17 a second victim was found. The body of a 41-year-old man was found in a ditch in the Manga neighborhood wounded by firearm.
The event happened between the streets Boiso Lanza Road and Don Pedro de Mendoza Avenuewhere the police arrived at 7:30 p.m. after complaints from the neighbors themselves who warned of shots in the area.
That day, at night, they committed two new murdersconfirmed by the Ministry of the Interior to The Observer. The first occurred around 9:50 p.m., when the police received a report of a man wounded by a gunshot wound on the streets of Lenguado and Claveles in the neighborhood. Saint Catherine.
When the troops arrived, they found that the victim, 48 yearswas already being transferred by her son to the Cerro Coordinated Center, where he died a few minutes after entering. Different witnesses told the authorities that the man He was shot while he was walking those streets. Scientific Police and the Investigations area of Operational Zone IV are working on the case.
One hour after the call from Santa Catalina, at 10:50 p.m., the 911 service was alerted about another man wounded by a firearm in the Bella Italia neighborhoodon the Passage Manuel Pérez and Curis and Torremolinos.
Police found at the scene a 34-year-old man killed with a shot to the head. She had three criminal records, the last of them for robbery in December 2021, detailed from Interior. Scientist is also in charge of the case, in conjunction with the Zone III Investigation area.
The last of the five homicides occurred between the afternoon and the night of this Sunday. A man He was assassinated after an argument he had at his home in the Jardines del Hipódromo neighborhoodreported Telemundo (Channel 12) and confirmed sources from the Montevideo Headquarters. The authorities are still at the scene and are working to clarify the situation.
