Overview

• Guaymallén, Mendoza: a 15-year-old admitted being at Franco Patricio Aracena’s apartment and identified Tomás Jeremías Gómez, 22, who surrendered, while the forensic report lists strangulation as the cause of death; the minor is inimputable and under ETI care and Gómez faces imminent imputación.
• Santa Fe: investigators in the Damián Strada case seized the victim’s cellphone during PDI raids in Monte Vera and detained two additional suspects, bringing the total held to four as the prosecution prepares a preventive-detention hearing.
• Florencio Varela: the autopsy on 15-year-old Lara Gutiérrez determined she died from hypovolemic shock due to stab wounds, including a severed right common carotid artery, refining the forensic picture in the triple-homicide inquiry.
• Santa Fe: charges against police officer César Omar Muga were expanded to femicide and a Mental Health Board evaluation was ordered after an autopsy linked Estela González’s death to the August shooting injuries.
• Breña, Lima: police identified a body found in a car trunk as Alexander Valverde Laines and detained his partner, Keily Aguilera Meneses, whose initial statement was reported by local media as a confession to the killing while the investigation proceeds.