Global Courant 2023-04-29 23:08:44
Rubén Guzmán (60) had been assaulted in February by two people who wanted to steal his car. The projection is worse than that of the bloodiest year.
Rosario has already reached her 100th death due to murders in the 119 days of the year. The victim who established the worrying mark is called Rubén Guzmán (60) and is a man who had been assaulted by two young men who wanted to steal his car.
It was a coup that took place on February 12, in the Arroyito neighborhood. The man has been hospitalized in serious condition since then and died this Saturday at the Clemente Álvarez Emergency Hospital (Heca).
Victim 99, according to the count carried out by the Rosario3 site, had been a teenager shot during a robbery in the western zone.
Rosario broke the sad mark in record time. In 2022, the year with the most deaths in the history of the city, the 100th victim had been registered on May 7. That is to say, that this 2023 the barrier was crossed eight days before.
How was the violent assault on the 100th victim
Rubén had been shot in February, when two people wanted to assault him when he arrived at his house on José Ingenieros street at 1900, around 6:00 p.m.
The block of Barrio Godoy where a teenager was killed on Friday, the 99th victim. The 100th was a man shot in February who has now died. Photo Juan Jose Garcia
According to the images that a security camera located in the area was able to record, the man arrived in a van that he parked at the door with his partner, a woman named Patricia.
A few meters away there were two people. One walking and the other in a wheelchair, although it is not clear if they were together or if the second passed by circumstantially.
One of the two went out to try to rob the couple and got into a hand-to-hand fight with Rubén, who threw him to the ground and hit him several times. The thief tried to escape, but after a few seconds he returned to the scene.
Rubén and his wife tried to enter the house, but the criminal pulled out a weapon and shot them both. He was shot in her abdomen and she was shot in the leg.
“The projectile injured several organs,” Marcelo Bitar, director of Heca, had told Radio 2. The victim was admitted to intensive care, with drugs and a respirator. Patricia, for her part, had to be operated twice due to her leg injuries. Police later found the stolen vehicle abandoned.
As confirmed by Rosario3, the case has two detainees. One is a convict who, when he committed the assault followed by death, was enjoying temporary release. This is Miguel Ángel Arce, who is in pretrial detention like his son.
Arce Sr. was sentenced in May 2018 to 8 years in prison for a cause of qualified robbery, unlawful deprivation of liberty, attack against authority and minor injuries that was resolved with an abbreviated trial.
In March 2016, he had been arrested for an assault that included a shootout with police personnel.
A year with an alarming projection
According to homicide records compiled by various sources, 2022 was the bloodiest year in the city’s history, with 287 homicides. On average, one every 30 hours. The highest previous figure had been revealed in 2013, when a war broke out between drug gangs that explained a good part of the 271 murders committed that year.
Today, the average stands at one homicide every 28 hours.
According to surveys of the Santa Fe Public Security Observatory, 68.8% of the murders registered in 2022 in Greater Rosario have connections with the illegal economy or with the movement of criminal organizations.
“In three out of four cases (75.8%) it was observed that the aggression that led to the death was not spontaneous, but had a component, even a minimal one, of planning,” the report indicates.
In that year, the 100th victim had been one of the members of a family riddled with gunmen, a homicide that occurred on May 7. The barrier this 2023 was broken before.
To put it in context, in 2013 (the second bloodiest year) 87 homicides had been committed by May 7, according to Clarín. In 2006, 16 years ago, 89 homicides had been all registered in one year.
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