Overview
- Facundo Rico, a 37-year-old Argentine engineer, was found in his Las Tablas apartment with 13 stab wounds and signs that pepper spray had been used after firefighters entered following neighbors' complaints; the attack occurred on July 14.
- Police recovered a roughly 20 cm knife at the scene and used security-camera footage that showed a man leaving in a red car and driving toward La Adrada, which helped identify the main suspect.
- Investigators named a 65-year-old man as the principal suspect and say he acted from an obsessive jealousy tied to his wife's reported desire to separate, a belief the suspect linked to the victim because they attended the same gym.
- The suspect died by suicide at Charco de la Olla in Ávila less than 24 hours after the killing, a development that closed the penal case and prevented arrest, interrogation, or a public trial.
- Rico, who lived in Spain for more than a decade and worked in renewable energy, leaves family and colleagues without a judicial finding while police keep the factual reconstruction as their working conclusion.