Overview
- The 49-year-old, identified as Marcelino Víctor Chinchay Gutiérrez, was discovered dead inside the Buenos Aires police station lockup in Nuevo Chimbote, Áncash.
- Chinchay Gutiérrez, a musician, had been detained on May 14 in the Tierra Prometida settlement after the girl's mother reported repeated abuse since last year.
- The Public Ministry ordered a necropsy at the central morgue and is investigating whether officers on duty failed required surveillance protocols.
- Police have floated suicide as a preliminary hypothesis, though investigators have not confirmed the method or circumstances of the death.
- Regional commanders have not issued a public statement, while the victim’s family says the suspect admitted the abuse and the detainee’s relatives declined to speak.