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.