This Sunday, the little Máximo Jerez became a new victim of the insecurity that lives in Rosario. He was 12 years old and died after being shot in the heart in a shooting that occurred in the Empalme Graneros neighborhood of that city of Santa Fe.
“We are tired of insecurity. What else do we have to wait for?” Antonia Jerez, Máximo’s aunt, expressed indignantly. In addition, three other children were left in the middle of the shooting.
One of them is the victim’s cousin, who is 13 years old and is admitted to intensive care. While another cousin and a neighbor underwent surgery and are stable.
“A car came, fired random shots and one hit Máximo’s heart,” said Antonia. In this sense, she pointed out: “There is no explanation, it gives you so much helplessness because they mess with innocent boys. Life is so unfair. You take care of them so much so that they come and take an innocent from you, ”she told the woman in dialogue with the TN portal.
This Monday morning they will take the little boy’s body to the cemetery, amid the commotion that caused a new death in the neighborhood: “All the neighbors are outraged and furious,” he said.
As Antonia told this medium, it is not the first time that something of these characteristics has happened in that place. “You see this often, previously they killed other innocent boys. We don’t want there to be another Máximo,” she added.
Rosario: how was the crime of Máximo Jerez in Rosario
The event occurred around 2 in the morning this Sunday at the intersection of Cabal 1300 bis and Pasaje San José streets. A group of criminals attacked a house where the four little ones were. The shots hit all of them and caused the death of Máximo Jerez.
In addition, a 2-year-old girl was shot in the arm and two other 13-year-olds were shot in the mouth and chest. All had to be transferred to the North Zone Children’s Hospital to be assisted.
The police went to the place of the attack and noticed the presence of the attackers, who tried to escape through the corridors of the settlement. Seconds later, a chase began that ended with the criminals escaping through the roofs of the neighborhood.
However, the attackers left clues for the investigation. The police found weapons with suppressed numbers, machine guns and silencers in a bed. In turn, they seized a motorcycle that had an active arrest warrant since February 24.