Overview
- Police and emergency medical personnel found Montero dead in his home in the Altos de San Lorenzo neighborhood and his death was confirmed at the scene.
- Local police, the Guardia Urbana and scientific forensics officers cordoned and processed the property on Calle 76 between 13 and 14 while judicial authorities began formal procedures.
- Reporters at the scene said Montero’s dog remained next to his body until officers arrived, a detail cited by multiple outlets covering the discovery.
- An uncorroborated witness told emergency services they had received a message and a video from Montero two days earlier in which he expressed a wish to kill himself; officials have not confirmed that claim.
- Montero spent roughly 25 years performing as La Plata’s emblematic 'statue viviente,' and his death revives public attention to his long career and the family’s earlier trauma over his daughter Abril’s contested death in Colombia, which the family pushed to have reclassified as homicide.