The man found half-buried in a vacant lot in the Peñarol neighborhood on Tuesday had an arrest warrant issued against him for the murder of Facundo Castro, an 18-year-old boy shot to death at the end of October by the now deceased and Mauro Segales, who was formalized a week ago for the same crime, police sources confirmed to The Observer. Both were also being investigated for the murder of the woman whose body appeared dismembered in the Peñarol neighborhood.
On Saturday, October 29, the remains of a dismembered woman appeared in a neighborhood storm drain. The police investigate the theory that the woman was singled out by the Segales family for having revealed who was the author of the triple execution in the neighborhood pasture, which occurred at the end of August. According to the investigation, they tortured and killed the woman and commissioned another to dispose of her body. She was booked for cover-up at the request of Homicide Prosecutor Adriana Edelman.
Although the main hypothesis of the police is that she was killed for having warned about the triple execution, there are no detainees in that case. They do investigate members of the Segales for alleged authorship.
Mauro Segales has been imprisoned for 10 days and formalized for the murder of Facundo Castro, an 18-year-old boy murdered in the last days of August. Montevideo Police Chief Mario D’Elía said at a press conference that Castro was not the target of the Segales gang, but that they confused him with someone else. In any case, the victim was the nephew of another man executed in Peñarol at the end of August – one of the three victims of a multiple homicide – for which Segales is also being investigated. At that time, he was under full house arrest for a reception charge.
Regarding Castro’s crime, the prosecutor said that they have three protected witnesses and biological and ballistic evidence. As reported, the young man was intercepted by a gray BYD car with black windows, although halfway down, driven by a man nicknamed “Keto” (the deceased on Tuesday) who worked with Segales, who was co-pilot. In addition, two other men were behind whom they did not finish individualizing, but who are also members of the band.
