Overview
- Prosecutor Omar De Pedro confirmed Wednesday that investigators identified and ordered the detention of a 30-year-old inmate at Unidad Penitenciaria Nº2 in Las Flores as a presumed coauthor in the October 12, 2020 femicide.
- The detainee is serving a separate two-year sentence that formally ends on October 10, 2026, and could apply for assisted release starting July 10, so prosecutors plan an immediate imputation and a request for preventive detention to prevent his release.
- Authorities say a confidential testimony given under reserve led investigators to the prisoner and that DNA taken from beneath Florencia Gómez’s fingernails is being used as forensic evidence to link suspects to the crime.
- Investigators maintain the killing involved at least two people and continue active efforts to identify and detain the other alleged material author while a provincial reward of roughly ARS 16–20 million remains available for useful information.
- The family and local community remain engaged with the case through their lawyers, and the next key steps to watch are the preventive detention hearing, further forensic results, and any moves to charge the detained inmate formally toward a possible trial.