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Arequipa Probes Stadium Death and Unidentified River Body as Two Robbery Suspects Ordered to Pretrial Detention

A necropsy plus clues from the victim's cellphone are expected to determine whether the stadium case was homicide or suicide.

Overview

  • Municipal security and police found a young man seated outside Estadio San Francisco with a kitchen knife embedded in the left side of his chest.
  • DIVINCRI Col. Percy Torres said investigators are weighing homicide or suicide in a relationship context, with the victim's phone in custody and a wound estimated to penetrate about six centimeters.
  • Prosecutors lifted the body and deputy prosecutor Giovanny Álvarez Urbina requested a necropsy to establish the cause and manner of death.
  • In a separate incident, rescue units recovered a decomposed male from the Socabaya river that forensics estimate has been dead about two months, and families who checked at the morgue could not identify him.
  • Unrelated to the deaths, a judge ordered nine months of preventive detention for two alleged members of Los Avanzadores del Sur in the armed robbery of a folk singer and her daughters in Cerro Colorado.