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Investigations Intensify After Deadly Stabbings, Shootings and Riot in Argentina and Peru

Authorities in both countries are pressing simultaneous investigations, pairing arrests with manhunts as the gravely wounded remain hospitalized.

Overview

  • Two Buenos Aires police officers were shot in Burzaco during a robbery attempt; officer Agostina Medina remains in intensive care with spinal damage as prosecutors in Lomas de Zamora lead the case and the assailants are sought.
  • In Huacho, Peru, a riot at the Rescatando Almas rehabilitation center left three dead, including the director, with two inmate attackers identified, two people injured, and police conducting an active search.
  • A 39-year-old woman in Guaymallén, Mendoza, died after a bullet entered her home during street gunfire, and a police officer was detained as the main suspect based on witness accounts while forensic work proceeds.
  • In Embarcación, Salta, a 22-year-old suspect known as ‘Gallito’ was arrested while fleeing along railway tracks with his mother after a fatal stabbing; the case is handled by the Fiscalía de Graves Atentados contra las Personas.
  • In Lima, investigators link multiple shootings to extortion, including the killing of a mototaxista in San Juan de Lurigancho, the execution-style deaths of two adolescents in Huáscar, the slaying of a mototaxista in Breña with one suspect captured and an extortion note found, and a Carabayllo concert attack that wounded two musicians under prosecutorial review.