Overview
- Security-camera video shows 20-year-old Isaías Barrera running down Zeballos al 1200 in Marcos Juárez while his body was on fire, and neighbors rushed to help him before emergency services arrived.
- Investigators say Barrera was first treated at Hospital Abel Ayerza and then transferred to Córdoba’s Instituto del Quemado, where he died after two days of hospitalization.
- Early on-scene peritajes recovered a bottle with gasoline, a cigarette beneath the motorcycle and a hose, a combination that led experts to consider that fuel vapors could have ignited accidentally when exposed to a lit cigarette.
- The victim’s family rejects the accident theory and alleges his partner poured fuel on him and that there were prior episodes of violence, while prosecutors say there are no formal judicial complaints on record and no one has been detained.
- The Fiscalía has ordered more forensic analyses, an autopsy and further witness interviews, and the outcome of those tests will determine whether the case is closed as an accident or pursued as a homicide with wider implications for how intimate‑partner complaints are recorded and investigated.