Overview
- The preliminary autopsy reports wounds to the thorax and abdomen from multiple-projectile ammunition and notes internal and external hemorrhage, with the projectile material not yet determined.
- The Buenos Aires Security Ministry placed a Comisaría 8A officer on administrative leave and opened a disciplinary inquiry, after videos showed him arriving with a shotgun.
- The criminal case is overseen by National Criminal and Correctional Court No. 20, which tasked the Federal Police Homicide Division with reconstructing the events and identifying who fired.
- Judicial sources say at least six officers are under investigation, with coverage citing up to seven, and one officer faces an inquiry for alleged cover-up.
- Authorities say officers were attacked with stones and bottles and three were injured, while the victim’s family denounced excessive force and organized a march demanding justice.