Global Courant 2023-05-16 08:09:06
Rogelio Facundo Lorenzo, 30, was inside his truck when he was intercepted by two men, who are on the run. The murder was recorded by a security camera.
A violent crime occurred in Moreno, where a 30-year-old man was shot in the neck after an argument with a friend at a service station. Investigators suspect that the homicide was motivated by personal couple issues, with a woman involved, although they did not rule out that it was for economic reasons either.
The tragic sequence that occurred on Saturday night was recorded by a neighborhood security camera. As can be seen in the video, the victim was inside his gray Volkswagen Amarok truck, on the sidewalk of his house, located at 400 Vicente López street, in the Buján neighborhood.
It was then, at 9:50 p.m., when a Toyota Etios arrived from which two men got out, one of them with a firearm in his hand. They both opened the driver’s door of the other vehicle and began a struggle. The truck began to move in reverse, until it was in the middle of the street.
After a few seconds and after shooting him point-blank in the neck, the attackers returned to their car to escape. A neighbor who heard the shot left his house and found the victim, identified as Rogelio Facundo Lorenzo, bloodied inside the Amarok, for which he called 911. Police personnel from the Departmental Investigation Delegation (DDI) of Moreno verified his death upon arrival at the crime scene.
According to the testimonies collected, the investigators established that there was a previous relationship problem between the victim and the attacker. In addition, they obtained filming from one of the security cameras at the Axion service station located between Calle España and the Colectora de Acceso Norte, in El Talar, where the two had had an argument hours before the murder.
There are still no arrests and the murderer and his accomplice are still on the run. The case was handled by the Functional Instruction Unit (UFI) 4 of the judicial department of Moreno-General Rodríguez.
“Facundo Lorenzo was my employer, he had a company that sold electrical appliances. The only thing we ask for is justice, he was an excellent person, incredible,” said Hernán, one of the victim’s employees, in El Nueve.
In addition, he referred to the murderer: “Aquino is the person who had been threatening Facundo for several days. It is true that there was a fight at a service station. They had met to chat, but it ended in a dispute. That supposedly originated the crime”.
The Massacre: brutal reckoning in which a young woman was mistakenly murdered
Evelyn Marianela Portillo (25 years old) was with friends on the sidewalk, in Rafael Castillo, La Matanza district. Suddenly, from two motorcycles a burst of shots fell on the group. One of the shots hit Evelyn in the back, who died when she was rushed to the hospital. Now, the investigators have more evidence of the episode: the scene was recorded on video by a home security camera.
The episode occurred on Sunday around 2 in the morning, when the young woman was with her boyfriend and at least five other friends at the intersection of García Merou and Polledo streets. The area, of seized land, is known as “La Nueva Unión”. Suddenly, from two motorcycles, four suspects opened fire on the group.
Faced with the attack, the friends fled desperately in different directions: three managed to open a barred door and entered the house from which the video was taken; the rest ran off to the right.
Seconds later, two of the friends pass in front of the camera, who were being chased by the two hitmen with a vehicle. The motorcycle crosses from right to left and gets lost in the escape.
A bullet hit Portillo, the mother of a 4-year-old girl, in the back. She was urgently transferred to the Favaloro Hospital, in Rafael Castillo, but she arrived lifeless at that medical center. Two men also suffered injuries.
The investigators, who now have the video of the episode, ruled out that it was an attempted robbery. The strongest hypothesis is that it was a failed reckoning, targeting a well-known drug dealer in the area, in the context of a confrontation between gangs that are dedicated to drug dealing.
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