Overview
- Police found the man lying in the street near manzana R in barrio 1° de Mayo and emergency services took him to Hospital Central 'Dr. Ramón Carrillo' after the August 28 incident.
- The victim's partner told officers that the shock occurred while the man attempted to cut high-tension public cables, a detail repeated by provincial police in their statements.
- He was admitted to intensive care with serious burns and died after 11 days in hospital, with police reporting cardiorrespiratory insufficiency as the cause of death.
- Fiscalía de Instrucción 1 assumed the case and a neighbor filed a damage complaint at Comisaría Seccional 4 the day after the electrocution, both steps now part of the official record.
- The case underscores the danger of tampering with high-voltage infrastructure and may prompt local authorities to review protections for public electrical lines and responses to reported cable theft.