Overview
- Hotel staff alerted police on January 16 after the occupants of room 306 at the Ker Hotel missed breakfast and checkout and did not respond to knocks.
- The woman, 41-year-old Gisela Mercedes Yurka, and her son, 7-year-old Gabriel Saru Ovejero, were found unresponsive in the bathtub of the room.
- The pair had checked in the previous afternoon intending to stay one night, according to police sources cited in local reports.
- Criminal and Corrections Prosecutor’s Office No. 59, led by Laura Belloqui, took charge of the case, with the Forensic Unit processing the scene and opening proceedings to determine causes of death.
- Investigators are gathering evidence, taking statements from hotel personnel, and attempting to locate relatives as the cause of death remains undetermined.