Overview
- The attack occurred on Thursday, August 13, and left Romina María de los Ángeles Calvo dead while her partner, Walter Humberto Verón, was found about 200 meters away with severe self‑inflicted wounds and remains hospitalized in grave condition.
- Juzgado Nacional Criminal y Correccional Nº 62 has formally caratulated the case as femicidio and tentativa de suicidio and investigators have seized a large butcher’s knife and a handwritten letter from the suspect.
- An eight‑year‑old daughter witnessed the assault and alerted a sibling; all three children are receiving psychological support and officials are arranging a Cámara Gesell interview to record the younger child’s testimony in a protected setting.
- The suspect’s note blames financial strain and personal resentment and the family says they face roughly 44 million pesos in debt while the victim’s adult son has denied earlier physical abuse by his father and rejected claims that a numerologist received family money.
- Police and prosecutors are collecting evidence and hospital custody of the suspect is in place as the judicial probe continues, with the prior 2018 conviction for choking the same woman cited by outlets as part of the case’s wider domestic‑violence context.