A 45-year-old man killed his 37-year-old ex-partner on Friday afternoon at a hotel in Rivera. Later, the man committed suicide. They were a couple for 20 years and had three children together. They had separated a few weeks ago.
According to the prosecutor in the case, a man and a woman they were missing and were found dead inside the hotel. “In the hours of 00:30 they had seen her for the last time with her ex-partner and the outcome was unfortunate,” he said.
Members of the Investigations Directorate with the collaboration of other Units, They located the lifeless couple with abundant bleeding inside a hotel room at kilometer 495 of Route 5.. There they seized a pistol with which the event could have taken place, according to the departmental headquarters.
The victim was a military nurse, an official of the Ministry of Defense. The man was a police officer from the Tacuarembó Headquarters.
