The trial for the crime of the kiosk Roberto Sabo during a robbery committed last November in the Buenos Aires town of Ramos Mejía, will continue this Thursday with the arguments of the parties.
The debate, which has Leandro Suarez (29) as the only defendant in the homicide, resumes before the Oral Criminal Court (TOC) 2, located at 2417 Mendoza Street.
The detainee accused of murdering Sabo (45) declared last Tuesday during the opening day of the debate and said that he entered the kiosk attended by the victim “with the intention of robbery but not to kill”, although after a struggle with the merchant he was “He escaped a shot.”
The defendant, who answered questions from the trial prosecutor, Sergio Antín, also acknowledged that the two seized firearms belonged to him, one at the Sabo kiosk and the other when he was arrested.
“This story seems very weak and inconsistent to me. In addition, he could not answer the question they asked him about the mechanics of this event,” said Humberto Prospero, one of the lawyers representing the newsstand’s family.
Is that The prosecution determined that Sabo received four bullet wounds, two in the chest and two in the face, for which the version given by the accused regarding the escaped shots is not consistent.
Suárez is tried for the crime of “aggravated robbery for the use of a firearm and for the participation of a minor, homicide criminis causae, carrying and illegal possession of a weapon, aggravated robbery and aggravated robbery, all in real contest with each other “, which provides for a life sentence.
The defendant has a criminal record and had finished serving a sentence in August 2020.
The fact
According to the trial presented by the first instance prosecutor, Federico Medone, Sabo’s crime was committed within the framework of a criminal raid that began on November 7, 2021when the defendant and the girl who accompanied him went to a remises agency in Ciudadela and asked to travel to Ramos Mejía.
Both were taken by the driver of a black Ford Focus to that area, where Suárez asked to stop for a few minutes at a kiosk located on Avenida de Mayo and Alvarado, in the commercial area of Ramos Mejía.
There he got off alone and entered the “Drugstore Pato” kiosk armed with “a 7.65 mm semiautomatic pistol with suppressed numbering and loaded with at least one cartridge, and a .22 caliber revolver,” according to the investigation.
Once inside the store, he intimidated Sabo with these weapons, seized 10,000 pesos from the sales and fired four shots at the kiosk, two of them with an exit hole, who died almost instantly, according to the accusation.
Leaving the kiosk, the assailant intimidated the taxi driver who had taken him to the place with weapons and stole 6,000 pesos from the collection, the cell phone and the car, in which he fled with the teenager.
In the flight, the Focus hit a tree, at which time the two crew members got out and entered a supermarket with the intention of pretending to be customers and taking the opportunity to change their clothes and thus try to avoid being identified.
After that, and always under threat with weapons, they stole the motorcycle and belongings from a delivery, until they were finally arrested on Avenida de Mayo and Rivadavia, in Ramos Mejía, during a police operation.
