Global Courant 2023-05-05 05:51:19
Jésica Gómez (27) and Ramón Villafáñez (54) were found dead and shot in the head by one of their children. Authorities and neighbors assure that there was no history of gender violence.
A 27-year-old woman and her 54-year-old partner were found dead with gunshots in a house in the Cordoba town of Villa del Rosario and the main hypothesis of the investigation is that of a possible femicide followed by suicide, they reported this Thursday judicial and police sources.
The incident, reports Télam, occurred in a house located on Martín Olmos y Aguilera street in Villa del Rosario and the victims were identified as Jésica Gómez and her partner Ramón Villafáñez.
According to the sources, both had gunshots to their heads and the tests were trying to determine if they corresponded to a shotgun found next to the man’s body.
According to the first data of the case, in charge of the prosecutor of the Río Segundo Manuel Ayán department, it was one of the three minor children of the woman who found both bodies lying on the floor of the living-dining room.
The boy immediately notified his maternal grandfather, who then called the police, according to a source close to the investigation.
Gomez lived with his partner and their three children in an apartment at the back of his maternal grandfather’s house.
However, according to statements by neighbors to ElDoce.tv, the deceased were a couple but were currently separated.
The police reported that they did not register a complaint about a history of gender violence, a fact that was ratified by the Secretary of Social Development of the municipality of Villa del Rosario, Ana María Valiente, who told Channel 12 of Córdoba that “the couple was seen well, with no history of violence and no suspicion that this outcome could occur.”
Gómez had a 15-year-old son from a previous couple, while the remaining two, aged 5 and 7, were with Villafáñez.
According to La Voz del Interior, the woman was a housewife and the man was a bricklayer and they lived together for several years.
From the municipality of the Cordoba town they reported that Gómez received assistance from specialists from the government, but not because of problems with Villafáñez.
“Jesica never mentioned any of that to us. We never had intervention due to a situation of violence with her partner, ”they pointed out.
The last visit by municipal assistants was more than a month ago, in which the objective was to verify that the children continued to attend school and that they were in good health.
“Her three children went to school regularly. Jésica was a mother present, ”they said.
Gómez had eight siblings, the product of his father’s relationship with his mother and then with another couple, details the same local media.
As they pointed out, there were situations of family violence in the environment. And they explained that, as a child, Jésica and two of her sisters were separated from home. “They were placed in residences for children and then returned to the parental environment,” the source explained.
Due to this context, the woman could not continue with her studies, specified a woman who was a teacher of the woman. Since then she has dedicated herself to doing housework.
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