A farmer was sentenced to 13 years in prison for killing a friend of his son’s

A 69-year-old agricultural producer was sentenced on Wednesday to 13 years in prison after a popular jury found him guilty of murdering a friend of his sonwhom he shot in July 2020 in the town of Tapalqué in Buenos Aires while trying to frame him with an alcohol spray in one hand and a .44 Magnum caliber revolver.

The decision to Judge Alejandra Raverta came across Nestor Felix Hirtz for the “simple homicide aggravated by the use of a firearm with possible intent” of the footballer Tomas Echegaray after last week, 10 of 12 juries had found him “guilty” of the crime, the same one that had been requested by the prosecutors Marcelo Fernández, instructor of the case, and Laura Margaretic.

Thus, the jury rejected the request of the defenders Ricardo Boucherie and Juan Carlos Scirica so it is framed as a “culpable homicide”, i.e. he did not intend to kill.

“He never intended to kill this boy, this boy who loved him, he’s gone crazy and cries every day, he needs psychological help,” Boucherie said of Hirtz, originally from La Pampa and who will continue to be held in a prison in Azul.

According to the lawyer, his client “has never entered a police station, has never had a fight with a neighbor or had a ticket”, so he will appeal in the next instance to try to change the qualification. legal.

It must be remembered that andThe event took place at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday July 5, 2020, at the defendant’s home, located at 36 rue Luis Brané, in Tapalqué, capital of the homonymous party of Buenos Aires, located in the center of the province and about 270 kilometers from the federal capital.

The victim played football at Club Atlético Tapalqué and that year he had moved to Boca Juniors de Azul, where he did not make his debut, and, in addition, he was the brother of the president of the municipal bloc Juntos by el Cambio, Juan Echegaray.

The footballer arrived home in his Toyota Hilux truck with another young man, as he was a friend of Estanislao Hirtz, the son of the owner of the house and according to what could be pieced together, Hirtz’s father wanted to do a joke related to safety and hygiene measures due to the coronavirus pandemic and came to greet him with an alcohol spray in one hand and a Smirth & Wesson .44 Magnum caliber revolver in the other, from where a shot escaped.

“He made a mistake and instead of triggering the alcohol, the gun triggered it,” he told telam A source from the investigation and it was Hirtz’s own son loaded his injured friend into the victim’s truck and took him to Tapalque Hospital, where they decided to transfer him to Pintos Hospital. of Azul, but he died in the ambulance.

The shooter also went to the hospital where, questioned by the police, he told them: “I shit. I wanted to make a joke and a shot escaped me.

Prosecutor Fernández, of the Functional Instruction Unit 1 of Azulordered his immediate arrest for the homicide and removed not only the .44 Magnum revolver with which he committed the act, but also another .38 caliber revolver he had in his vehicle, weapons of which he was the legitimate user.

Echegaray’s autopsy determined that the projectile entered the abdominal region -through the right iliac fossa-, with an exit hole in the left posterior region of the thorax and that, on its way, it injured the liver and caused rupture of the aortic artery, the death of which resulted from hypovolemic shock. After passing through the victim, the projectile became embedded in the front bumper of the inmate’s truck.

With information from Telam

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