San Miguel de Tucumán does not leave the fright. Without saying a word, a 74-year-old man He hit a 28-year-old man in the face with a shotgun. who traveled in a cart drawn by a horse. The entire situation was recorded on video on a security camera.
The incident occurred last Saturday, when the victim – identified as Ariel Melián, 28 years old – was driving through the Tucuman capital in a blood-drawn car on Alem Avenue, in the South neighborhood of San Miguel Tucumán.
Behind a tree the killer was hiding. He waited for him until he saw him arrive, at the intersection with López Mañana street.
The subject He walked with the gun raised and pointed it at the person who was holding the horse’s reins.. In the video without sound, the young man can be seen standing on the car to say something to him. The man then shot him in the face.
After the crime, the 74-year-old man -identified as Miguel Bartolomé Cajal- was arrested for Melián’s murder at his home, located at 2300 Alem Avenue. As the local Justice was able to reconstruct, the subject attacked the victim for an alleged robbery of a motorcycle days ago.
Prosecutor Carlos Sale, in charge of the Homicide Prosecution Unit II, ordered a search of his home this morning to seize items of interest to the case, especially the shotgun used in the incident.
“Melián is a boy with a long history and according to what was obtained from the first witness statements, the motive could be the theft of Cajal’s motorcycle, a few days ago.”, said an investigator of the case.
The skills are in charge of the Scientific Team of Fiscal Investigations (ECIF) of the Public Prosecutor’s Office and the Homicide Division of the Tucumán Police.
For his part, the prosecutor Sale has 48 hours to carry out the hearing to formulate charges against the defendant.