The body was found in the patio of a house located on Raúl Denis and Ruben Paleo. During the attack, a woman was injured after being shot in the arm.
The Police located a few blocks from the scene a motorcycle that, according to initial investigations, would have been used by the perpetrators of the crime. The fatal victim had eight criminal records.
This fact is added to seven other murders recorded in the same period. In Montevideo, three homicides occurred in the early hours of December 25: a 14-year-old teenager was shot in Plácido Ellauri, an adult man in Cerro Norte and a 19-year-old boy in Prado.
In Peñarol, a 34-year-old man was found dead in the street on Wednesday afternoon. This Thursday morning, in Gruta de Lourdes, a 30-year-old man was murdered in an abandoned house.
For its part, in Soriano, a femicide shocked the population when a 47-year-old woman was murdered by her ex-partner. In Rivera, the victim was a young Brazilian, also murdered in an episode of violence that is still under investigation.
