In the early hours of Sunday, October 9, after a call that alerted about a man lying on the ground, the police of sectional 22 of Salinas, Canelones, arrived at route 34 between Ibirapitá and the interbalnearia route, and found him with a gunshot to the chest.
The 23-year-old man was transferred to a health center, and at 1:40 in the morning his death was confirmed.
In the case, scientific police work looking for clues in a farm that was defined as the scene of the crime and also the Homicide department. The investigation continues in the hands of prosecutor Vidal de Atlántida.
Murder of a girl and suicide in Salto
A man killed his seven-year-old daughter this Saturday in Salto and then committed suicide.
The couple’s history consisted of violence since at least 2021. In June, the minor’s mother had denounced the murderer for domestic violence, Carlos Melo, the spokesman for the Salto headquarters, reported to Telemundo.
At that time precautionary measures were imposed against the man, but later the couple resumed the bond and returned to the initial situation. There were no more complaints, although three months ago they made the decision to separate even though they still lived in the same house.
The woman knew that the man was with their daughter, and he even sent her messages asking her to resume the bond. Shortly after, at dawn on Saturday, he killed the girl – the prosecution presumes that she was by suffocation – and he himself committed suicide.
It was a “heartbreaking event,” the police official said. “A neighbor tirelessly banged on the door of a house and suspecting that he might be going through something out of the ordinary, he called the police,” Melo said.
The house in the Albisu neighborhood — 12 kilometers from the capital of Salta — was “totally closed.” “There is no possibility that there would have been another person,” the spokesman said.
The prosecution’s investigation is presumed to be cut short by the author’s suicide, although representatives of the Public Ministry are still awaiting the definitive results of the girl’s autopsy. The main hypothesis is that the man murdered her daughter in retaliation against her ex-wife, sources in the investigation said.
