Overview
- Antonio Quinteros received three years and six months after the Chamber 5th of Crime classified the 2024 street stabbing as homicide in excess of legitimate defense of his daughter.
- Alejandro Luna died at the scene in barrio Las Polinesias, with the court noting prior reports that he had previously assaulted Brenda Quinteros.
- Judge María Susana Beatriz Blanc Gerzicich de Scapellato adopted the prosecutor’s theory of excess self‑defense but set a lighter term than the four years requested; the private accuser had sought 14 years for simple homicide.
- Separately, the Criminal and Correctional Chamber of 2nd Nomination sentenced Alejandro Jesús Quinteros to life for the 2023 femicide of Valeria Gancedo, finding triple‑qualified homicide by relationship, treachery and gender‑based violence, plus related offenses.
- Forensic findings showed Gancedo was sedated with benzodiazepines, bound, asphyxiated and buried in a field near Impira; the court also ordered forfeiture of the Ford Ranger used and noted he must serve 35 years.