2023-06-22 20:33:00
The charge for homicide and other crimes against a young man accused of being a soldier from the Los Salteños gang, the group dedicated to drug dealing that in March was target of a neighborhood uprising as a result of the crime of the child Máximo Gerezis a sample button of how that clan operated in the sector known as Los Pumitas, in Empalme Graneros: through threats and without qualms about shooting. The circumstances of the murder of Luis Alfredo Cañete, a 34-year-old resident executed last August, bear witness to this. According to the investigation, this man had a dispute with a shooter who, in front of several witnesses, killed him with six shots. for months, Investigators hit a wall of silence and the inquiry remained deadlocked.
The closure on this case ended after the events of March 7, when the fury of the neighbors was unleashed at the end of the funeral of Máximo, the little boy whose life ended abruptly after being hit by the bullets that were generated by an alleged interna between the Salteños and another sheaf that are settling the drug dealing business in the area.
According to legal sources, the Walter “Rengo” Segovia (21) was one of the members of the Salteños who took refuge on the roof of the house-guantadero de Cabal at 1300 bis to face the siege of neighbors fed up with impunity.
Segovia wore an Argentine national team shirt while dodging rocks and throwing beer bottles in an unequal battle. That March 7, Rengo left the house, which was left in piecesescorted by police personnel as well as other relatives of Cristian “Salteño” Villazón.
Two days later, Segovia was charged at the same hearing with Juan José, Cristian’s father, and his mother, María del Carmen Campos.
On that occasion, prosecutor María de los Ángeles Granato attributed to Segovia having bought a Honda 125 motorcycle in March 2020 “knowingly” that it was stolen, and that he had a warrant for his arrest since December 2019. For this fact, he charged the crime of aggravated concealment for profit. And having entered a private home in Pasaje San José at 2500 without the consent of the owners, through a threat with a .22 caliber pistol, apparently seeking refuge from a police pursuit.
Due to these accusations, Segovia remained in preventive detention, housed in the Piñero prison.
The fall of the territorial domain of the Salteños clan paved the way for some residents to be encouraged to speak about other criminal acts attributed to this group.
The team of prosecutor Alejandro Ferlazzo received at least six testimonies from eyewitnesses that pointed to Segovia as the killer of Luis Alfredo Cañete (34), one of the six people who were shot dead in Los Pumitas in 2022.
This Thursday the accusation indicated that on August 20 at 6:10 p.m. Rengo Segovia approached Cañete when he was traveling in a red Honda Tiran through Ottone at 1200 bis (Ottone intersection with the Santa Clara passage, parallel to the Los Pumas club), and wounded him with at least five shots, causing his death as a result of massive chest hemorrhage (hypovolemic shock). Then he took the victim’s motorcycle and left the scene carrying the vehicle.
“The crime was committed in the middle of the afternoon in front of everyone and nobody wanted to talk”indicated a judicial source.
The prelude to the murder, according to the Prosecutor’s Office, was an attempted robbery carried out by Segovia himself against “a kid from the neighborhood.” canete “He interceded and prevented the robbery, but Rengo came back armed and killed him”said one researcher. When he left with the victim’s motorcycle, he threatened those present.
For this sequence, Judge Verónica Silvana Lamas ordered preventive detention for the crimes of aggravated homicide by the use of a firearm, aggravated robbery (calamitous) and illegitimate possession of a war firearm.
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