The Third Shift Homicide Prosecutor, Adriana Edelman, assured that the death of a man in Lezica occurred through the “collaboration of a riot.”
“Everyone collaborates in making the event ‘death’ happen. Death does not occur when the two defendants are alone; It happens when the collaboration of the tumult, among which is one of the defendants, together manages to stab him,” the prosecutor reported at the hearing in which she requested the imputation of a father and his son for the group homicide of a man in Lezica, whom they accused of having robbed. The father was charged with home invasion and private violence, while the son was charged with home invasion and homicide as a co-author.
According to the prosecutor, the defendant as co-author of the homicide (21 years old) was walking home with a friend, with whom he would eat a barbecue. Arriving at the place, the young man told his father (charged with private violence) that they had tried to rob him. He assured that they had taken his wallet –in which he maintained that there was $8,000–, the cell phone and that they had made some cuts in the jacket he was wearing. Edelman indicated that it is not proven that this alleged robbery has existed.
From that, the father grabbed two knives and went to look for the alleged aggressor in a car. On the way back from his house, they identified a man and began to chase him. Faced with this situation, the victim went inside a house trying to hide. The defendants entered behind him and there they struggled, exchanged blows and hit him with “a kind of cobblestone” and a stick. The aggressors affirm that the victim also tried to hurt them with prison cuts that they wore.
Then, the son went to the door of the property and the father returned home to look for a “long iron.” But in the meantime the fatal attack took place. About six people approached the scene and one of them fired a shot. After that, the son and those neighbors entered the property and fatally wounded the victim with white weapons..
According to the prosecutor, the father returned to the scene when the mortal wounds had already been inflicted (which is why he is not charged with co-authorship of homicide).
The homeowners realized this and yelled at the defendants to stop, to no avail. Fearing that they would also be hurt, they went inside their house and They called the police about 17 times.
The forensic report determined the existence of multiple stab wounds and concluded that the cause of death was one made at chest level. In addition, defensive wounds were found on the fists.
The defender of the accused He insisted that it was the victim who injured the young defendant (he indicated that he had cuts “as long as machetes”) and that he only wanted to “recover his wallet with 8,000 pesos and his cell phone.” “There were other people who, inflamed by the situation, ended up killing him,” he considered..
The son must serve 120 days in preventive detention while the investigation continues and the father the same amount of time, but in house arrest.
“I didn’t steal from anyone, I just came from work”
“I never stole from anyone, I come from work”said the assaulted man, dying, minutes before he was attended at 9:00 p.m. on Saturday. About 2 o’clock on Sunday morning he died. “I would have a rare job, because I had two cuts on me,” said to The Observer one of the neighbors who helped him, although saddened by the outcome. “I have no way of knowing who they were, but they got out of hand, it was 10 or 15 against one.”
