Overview
- An 81-year-old, María Susana Rodríguez Iturriaga, was found bound and beaten to death in her San Isidro home days after the attack, according to investigators.
- Authorities detained at least five suspects tied to the Banda del Millón, with phone messages referencing the victim’s death and searches extending to a Buenos Aires prison unit cited as a suspected planning hub.
- In La Plata’s La Loma and Parque Castelli, multiple pre-dawn home invasions targeted elderly residents, including a 64-year-old and her 95-year-old mother held at gunpoint for nearly two hours and an 88-year-old robbed by masked intruders.
- Police captured a 20-year-old wanted for the February murder of nurse Jonatan Nicolás Calderón in La Plata, accusing him of aggravated homicide and robbery after he allegedly struck an officer with a car during the arrest attempt.
- In separate cases under investigation, a driver was shot dead in Breña, Lima, a Rosario shooting victim, Héctor Hugo González, died in hospital, a Santa Fe man was wounded in a motorcycle robbery, and two men were shot in Arequipa after resisting a theft.