Overview
- Walter Gastón Escalante, 44, was shot in the chest when a projectile came through a kitchen window as he prepared food for his children at his mother's home.
- The gunfire broke out around 3 a.m. near Chacabuco and Naón in Billinghurst, San Martín, according to family accounts.
- Family and neighbors say motorcycle riders were firing at a man tied to a recently established drug-selling spot on the corner, and one round entered the house.
- He was rushed to Hospital Interzonal General de Agudos Eva Perón and died about three hours later; relatives said prior tuberculosis had left his lungs too weak for surgery.
- Two of his four children were present but unhurt, and Comisaría 5ª de San Martín is leading the investigation with no suspects announced as investigators review security footage.