Overview
- The attack unfolded early Sunday at a combined birthday and retirement celebration in Paraje Las Mercedes near Larroque with roughly 200 attendees.
- Hernán Morales, 29, had been removed after harassing a woman and allegedly threatened to return before coming back armed.
- Investigators say he retrieved a 12.70-caliber shotgun and a .22 carbine from a nearby rural site, fired from outside, and fatally wounded 63-year-old Raúl Alfredo Scherer.
- Guests subdued Morales—one struck him with a stick—while Scherer was driven by his son to Hospital San Isidro Labrador, where he died; Morales was taken by his father to Hospital Centenario and is under custody.
- Police seized two firearms, a cellphone, and shell casings, and the Gualeguaychú prosecutor ordered ballistics and video analyses and is examining possible intoxication or third-party assistance in obtaining the weapons.