Oscar Gustavo Valdezthe man who shot at the police officer Maribel Nélida Salazar, at the Retiro station on subway line C, taking her life, will be charged this Wednesday with “aggravated homicide”.
the attacker30 years old and of Uruguayan origin, remains detained in Unit 28 of the mayor’s office of the Palace of Courts. Oscar Gustavo Valdez will be investigated by Judge Martín Peluso, of the National Criminal and Correctional Court 9.
Prior to the accusation, Peluso ordered a search of the house of Oscar Gustavo Valdezlocated at Calle Arequipa 2,100, in the City of Buenos Aires.
The Homicide Division of the Federal Police was in charge of the procedure, The officers searched for some type of information about the man, such as weapons, documentation, and particular bibliography that could be associated with “the idea of hatred and aversion to police personnel.”, in order to provide evidence for the investigation. However, they would not have found anything of interest.
However, the troops reported that the residents of the place of residence where the attacker lived with his partner, called the man “violent.” It should be noted that Valdez He has a history of gender violence and resistance to authority.
During his capture, at the Sheraton Hotel, a few meters from the Retiro station on subway line C, the attacker resisted and claimed that the police officers “were hurting him.” In addition, by way of triumph, he assured: “I am the boss, I won, I won.”
It should be remembered that in the unusual act of violence that occurred yesterday morning, the man he shot the police officer twice, seriously injuring her, so she did not manage to survive. She also injured a subway operator, who remains stable at the Fernández Hospital.
Who was Maribel Nélida Salazar?
Maribel Nélida Salazar, the woman who was murdered this Tuesday, after intervening in a discussion between a subway operator and a man, who finally attacked her with his gun, was a member of the Line C, D, E, H Division and Premeter.
The woman was 36 years old, the mother of two children aged 5 and 13, and lived in the Buenos Aires town of Glew. She had trained in the Federal Police where she worked from 2014 to 2016, and then asked to be transferred to the local police.
Her colleagues regretted the fact and remembered her as a loving woman dedicated to her work. Through social networks, thousands of citizens demand justice for Maribel and more security to prevent these acts of violence.
