Overview
- Argentina: Janet Karina Arotinco Palomino, 44, was fatally stabbed on a Lomas del Mirador street with no belongings taken; the attacker is at large and prosecutor Carlos Adrián Arribas leads the case.
- Mendoza: a 31-year-old driver was detained and the case labeled attempted homicide after he ran over a 19-year-old suspected thief and dragged him hundreds of meters, leading to bilateral leg amputations and a critical prognosis.
- Quilmes: an off-duty City Police officer who shot and killed two armed robbers will not be charged after prosecutor Javier Barrera deemed the shooting legitimate self-defense.
- Lima region: two suspects were detained in the killing of taxi driver Eisen Hawer Luis Ortega Yapez in Santa Anita, police logged 27 shell casings in the execution-style murder of motorcyclist John Jairo Lord Contreras in Comas, and a Carabayllo mototaxista survived a head wound in a shooting relatives link to extortion threats.
- Callao: two people were detained after 18-year-old Fabricio Alexander Gamboa Ardiles was abducted from outside a nightclub and shot dead, while a separate opinion column in Peru reports four journalists were killed in 2025 with no conclusive prosecutions.