Overview
- Police located 5-year-old Pedro Rodríguez Laurta unharmed in Gualeguaychú, Entre Ríos, a day after his mother and grandmother were shot dead in Córdoba.
- Pablo Laurta was arrested at the Hotel Berlín while arranging transport toward the Uruguay border after nationwide Alerta Sofía and Interpol notices were issued.
- The case is led by prosecutor Gerardo Reyes and has been classified as a double homicide aggravated by gender-based violence and family relationship.
- Authorities said Laurta will be transferred to Córdoba’s Bouwer prison as investigators collect communications, video and witness evidence.
- Investigators are probing possible links to the disappearance of rideshare driver Martín Palacios and a nearby church fire that killed two children, and they are reviewing prior domestic-violence complaints and the victim’s unused panic button.