Another serious fact unsafety hit the Buenos aires city. It is that this Monday, March 6, at dawn, a criminal killed a citizen of Venezuelan origin with a shot to the head in the neighborhood of Palermo, after a struggle in which the victim sought to prevent the theft of his cell phone. The city police looking for the perpetrator of the criminal act, who is on the run.
The violent episode occurred around 2:15 in the morning on the sidewalk of a house located on the street Aráoz between Gorriti and Hondurasa few blocks from the serrano squareone of the busiest areas of the Palermo neighborhood.
It all happened when the victim was sitting on the sidewalk with a friend. Both had a conversation until they were approached by a man who was armed and immediately released a phrase that anticipated the lethality of the event: “Give me your cell phone, or do you want me to kill you?”
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The recipient was Juan Francisco Fernandez Acostaaccording to police information released by telam. The victim tried to resist the threat and began a struggle that ended with the firing of a firearm projectile that ended up in the head.
The offender fled and the victim was left lying on the sidewalk. His neighbor and friend, also a native of Venezuela, immediately called the Police and after a while an ambulance also arrived at the scene and transferred the victim to the Fernández Hospital. He made it to the hospital alive, but finally He died this Monday morning.
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“He was a very enterprising professional boy, a systems engineer. She was chatting with his colleague and friend when they were approached by a criminal,” said a neighbor of the young man in statements to All News.
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Acosta was 27 years old and was working remotely from home. He had arrived in Argentina some time ago and in addition to his professional task He also occupied his time as a delivery.
“We do not know if the offender was alone or accompanied. He was walking. He asked for his belongings,” said another of the neighbors, who also knew him.
He, also a Venezuelan national, said: “What is happening here is something extreme. Less than two meters away we have a police station and there is enormous insecurity here. You no longer feel calm. We in Venezuela were always alert, pending, because we already knew the situation in which we lived. We thought that Argentina was a calmer country, but now we see that it is not like that”.
Strictly speaking, around the corner, on Av. Scalabrini Ortíz at 1,300, the headquarters of the 14 A Police Station of the City Police are located. It is two blocks from where the event occurred.
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The author of the shot escaped from the place and at this time is wanted by agents of the City Police. If The Neighborhood Police Station 14A and the National Criminal and Correctional Prosecutor’s Office 24 intervene, by prosecutor Marcelo Retes. In addition, the National Criminal and Correctional Court No. 45 intervenes.
In the place there are several security cameras that, if they worked, would have recorded the event and would allow the establishment of the before and after sequence.. At the moment there are only physical descriptions of the attacker.
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