A man was killed by at least one bullet shot in it Penarol neighborhood Wednesday night, reported Telemundo (channel 12) and confirmed sources of the case to The Observer. It is the fifth homicide in 72 hours in that neighborhood of Montevideo.
It occurred close to 8:00 p.m. in Soria and Olivera streetsadded from the Ministry of the Interior to The Observer. At around 8:20 p.m., the police were alerted that at the scene two people had shot a man, who was wounded by a gunshot.
Upon arrival, the officers found that the victim was unconscious and requested that he be treated by an ambulance. Doctors later reported her death. The man is still unidentified, and the prosecution is already investigating the case.
Its about fifth homicide in the last 72 hours in the neighborhood and the tenth in the year. In all of 2021, 10 homicides were recorded in Peñarol.
The escalation of homicides and violence causes concern in the government and the Minister of the Interior, Luis Alberto Heber, who met this Wednesday in the Executive Tower with Luis Lacalle Pou, and presented him with a “plan of action” said. The minister had been in Peñarol 24 hours earlier, at the launch of a police operation.
Homicide escalation
Last Tuesday there were three murders in Peñarol: Around 1 a.m. that day a 56-year-old man was shot to death. Then, at 3:47 a.m., the homicide of two men who were semi-calcined near the train tracks that pass through the neighborhood, near the corner of Camino Edison and Fulton.
That happened a few blocks from what happened this Wednesday morning, when the police found a burned and dismembered body in a precarious structure on Luis Pasteur and Terencio streets, as reported by The Observer. On Wednesday night, the fifth homicide occurred.
Over the course of 2022 there were another five homicides in the area, two in January, one in March and another two in April. With a total of 10 homicides, the neighborhood matched the 10 of all 2021. In 2020 there were six and in 2019 there were 15.
Nationwide, there are 15 homicides reported since Monday, May 2of which nine were in Montevideo, three in Canelones, two in Maldonado and one in Salto.
