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Gendarme Found Dead at Home in Tartagal Under Suicide Inquiry

Prosecutors are treating self-harm as the leading line of inquiry pending the autopsy.

Overview

  • Colleagues checking on a 28-year-old gendarme found him unresponsive at his Tartagal home Wednesday after he missed duty.
  • Police logged a 911 alert around 10:30 a.m., confirmed the death at the scene, and activated protocol through Comisaría Tercera.
  • The prosecutor’s office for grave crimes against persons requested a forensic doctor, and Criminalistics preserved and documented the home.
  • Investigators identified the victim as Gustavo Daniel Aquino of Gendarmería’s Escuadrón 54, a Formosa native who lived alone in the TGN neighborhood.
  • Authorities cite suicide as the main hypothesis with autopsy results still pending, and the case drew mourning posts and concern about support for security-force personnel alongside reports of other recent deaths.