Overview
- Police detained Javier Gustavo Echeverguren, 38, as the prime suspect in psychiatrist Virginia Franco’s killing in City Bell after tracking CCTV and phone data, with an autopsy citing fatal neck wounds from a bladed weapon.
- The Lanús case remains active as investigators seek a 16-year-old who called 911 with a false accident story before fleeing, with UFI No. 8 awaiting autopsy results to firm up the charge.
- Prosecutors in Cosquín are examining the deaths of a 27-year-old man and a 47-year-old woman in a Valle Hermoso hotel under a primary hypothesis of femicide followed by suicide, pending autopsy findings.
- The oral trial in Rosario began for the 2022 double homicide of Claudia Del Debbio and Virginia Ferreyra, with four defendants facing accusations that prosecutors say merit life sentences.
- An off-duty Buenos Aires provincial police sergeant working as an app driver shot two alleged assailants dead and wounded a woman in Luis Guillón, with a specialized fiscal unit reviewing possible excess in self-defense; the officer was not detained.