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New Year's Eve Shootings in Santa Fe Province Kill Four, Including Pregnant 17-Year-Old

Investigators say the Santa Fe City attacks followed an early‑morning execution, prompting probes into a cycle of retaliation.

Overview

  • In Santa Fe City, 21-year-old Matías Fernández was executed around 6 a.m. in Loyola Sur by two gunmen on a motorcycle, with a shot to the head reported by officials.
  • Hours later, assailants targeted a nearby home in Loyola Sur, killing 17-year-old pregnant Juliana Ojeda at the scene and Isaías Uriel Álvarez after he was taken to Hospital Iturraspe.
  • Two other members of the Álvarez family were wounded in the midday attack, with judicial sources treating the sequence as likely revenge tied to Fernández’s killing.
  • Separately in Rosario’s Tablada neighborhood, 16-year-old Valentino Ramírez died at Hospital Roque Sáenz Peña after being shot multiple times in a passage at Esmeralda and Biedma.
  • Police in Rosario detained three young men and seized a Nissan identified by witnesses, as authorities continued forensic work and noted a preliminary 2025 total of 116 homicides in the department.