Overview
- Police say 24-year-old Alexis Maximiliano Pereyra died after being stabbed during a fight that followed a community football match near Campo Gallo.
- Witnesses report the cousins had been drinking when 21-year-old Rubén Esteban Jaimez refused to drop a knife and stabbed Pereyra in the abdomen.
- The clash stemmed from a prior accusation that Pereyra had stolen a cabrito belonging to Jaimez.
- Pereyra was rushed to the Campo Gallo hospital and died before 3 a.m., with a preliminary autopsy indicating hypovolemic shock from blood loss.
- After his mother called police, officers detained Jaimez in Paraje Santa Marina; he was formally imputed for homicide as prosecutors seized a knife, his clothing and phone and began collecting testimonies with preventive surveillance.