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Brazilian Tourist, 69, Killed After Unprovoked Street Attack on Buenos AiresCorrientes

Prosecutors have reclassified the case as femicide as the suspect stays under psychiatric custody and the family pushes to repatriate the body to Brazil.

Overview

  • Maria Vilma das Dores Cascalho da Silva Bosco, 69, fell and suffered a fatal brain hemorrhage after being struck without warning near Corrientes and Agüero around midday on November 6.
  • She was rushed by SAME to a hospital but died hours later; neurosurgeons told the family a massive cranial bleed, worsened by anticoagulants, made surgery unviable.
  • Police detained a man in his 30s hours after the attack at Córdoba and Junín; he remains at Hospital Borda under guard and has roughly 20 prior arrests and multiple psychiatric hospitalizations, including reported escapes.
  • The case was initially labeled attempted homicide, and a city prosecutor later recast it as aggravated homicide on gender grounds, with a forensic psychiatric evaluation pending to determine the accused’s criminal responsibility.
  • The victim’s daughter is urging a swift autopsy and body release to enable repatriation, and Brazil’s foreign ministry says its consulate in Buenos Aires is monitoring the process after a family fundraising drive.