The heartbreaking story of the aunt of the 11-year-old boy riddled with bullet wounds in Rosario: “We are all destroyed”

maximum of sherry died in the early hours of Sunday in the northwest area of ​​Rosario. I was 11 years old. He was on the sidewalk of a house, with other children, some his own age, others a little older, when a man started shooting at this group of people. Another deadly victim of the escalating violence that does not relent or give respite despite the political shock posed by the well-known threat against Messi.

“We can’t live like this; the boys are innocent and now I am going to the club to receive my nephew’s body”. Thus began his poignant story Antonia Jerez, Maximo’s aunt. “We are all devastated, they are healthy boys; he had played football, he finished at 18, and what happened happened; we are so tired of being robbed, they killed me; the neighborhood is in mourning, they are all angry, ”said the woman interviewed by Ernesto Tenembaum In radio with you.

“The only thing I ask is that justice be done and that everyone knows who are those who sell drugs, seize houses and disperse”, he added, while giving a version of why the shooting happened: “The boy who was running got in the middle of my sisters, and they thought it was one of the boys who was there”.

The shooting attack on the group of minors occurred around 2:30 a.m., in front of a house located at 1500 María de los Ángeles, in the Cabal neighborhood and San José, in the Empalme Graneros neighborhood. According to sources, an as yet unidentified man came to the scene and started shooting at the house. At least one of the shots hit the back of Máximo’s child, causing his death. As, three other minors, two 13-year-olds and a 2-year-old girl, were hit by bullets and they were rushed to the North Zone Hospital.

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The girl, who was shot in the arm, remains hospitalized in a reserved condition, the sources said. Meanwhile, one of the 13-year-olds was shot in the chest, for which he had to undergo surgery. The third boy came in with a bullet in his mouth.

On the strength of that report, officers attended the scene and found bloodstains and large-caliber cloves served, sources in the case told GlobeLiveMedia.

The people who were there escaped through the corridors of the settlement when they noticed the police presence. A chase ensued, but they managed to escape through the rooftops. However, weapons with removed numbers, machine guns and silencers were left on a bed.

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Criminal Intelligence Agency ballistics personnel found three .40 caliber shells and seized an unnumbered Tanfoglio brand pistol and a rusty “shotgun”, they said.

At the same time, a neighbor told investigators she saw a man arrive and leave aloneAlthough they are analyzing if he had a support vehicle waiting for him near the scene of the attack.

The prosecutor on duty of the special unit of the prosecutor of intentional homicides, Adrian Speltaordered the Criminal Investigation Agency (AIC) and the Forensic Sciences Division of Rosario to carry out the photography, ballistics, planimetry and laboratory tests, in addition to the investigation of the cameras and testimonials.

Three hours later, another homicide was recorded on Campbell and Cisneros streets. The victim, identified as Jonathan Suarez, 24, was beaten and shot by several men who got out of their car and fled. At the scene, a 9 mm caliber nacelle was seized.

It was the fifth crime in Rosario since the shooting and threat against the Único supermarket of Antonela Roccuzzo’s family.

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