Overview
- A 13-year-old named Emilia was shot in the head during a gang shootout in Ciudad Evita, La Matanza, and remains in critical care as police review security video with no arrests reported.
- In Buenos Aires, a preliminary autopsy for nurse Eduardo Alejandro Bentancourt found hypertrophic and dilated cardiomyopathy with lung congestion as the cause of death, with toxicology and histopathology still pending.
- In La Plata, investigators treated the death of 80-year-old Néstor Daniel Copoletti as a homicide tied to a possible robbery, with UFI No. 16 leading the case and camera checks underway.
- In Comas, Lima, police said Carlos Valerio Bloisa, 44, fatally stabbed his former partner Lila Capcha, 40, then tried to cut his own throat and now remains under guard in a hospital.
- In Sonora, Mexico, a juvenile court issued adolescent-system sanctions for two girls who filmed the 2025 killing of 15-year-old Leyla Monserrat, ordering two years and ten months of detention for one and supervised release for the other.