Overview
- In Ica, Peru, the Public Ministry opened an attempted aggravated homicide case over the Jan. 31 shooting of Los Aquijes mayor Edward Amoroto, ordered urgent investigative steps, and confirmed he remains in intensive care after emergency surgery.
- Security video and a medico-legal report in Lima’s San Luis identified Eduardo Tipacti as the presumptive attacker in the New Year’s Day killing of his uncle José Antonio Macavilca, with the necropsy citing severe cranial trauma as the cause of death and no arrest reported so far.
- Santa Fe’s juvenile court scheduled a Feb. 4 hearing to impose protective measures on two 14-year-olds linked to the killing of Jeremías Monzón, following a request by the minors’ prosecutor.
- An oral trial opened in the Rosario area for the double femicide of sisters Marianela and Estefanía Gorosito, with prosecutors seeking life sentences and framing the case as gender-based violence within organized crime.
- Jalisco authorities reported an operation in Tlajomulco that ended with one suspected killer shot dead and another detained, tied to at least two homicide investigations including the fatal shooting of a 62-year-old man outside a shop.