Overview

• Investigators arrested a 19-year-old adult suspect in the Villa Luzuriaga carjacking shooting that killed Rita Mabel Suárez on Aug. 14, and are searching for two teenage suspects still at large.
• Security cameras and a virtual-wallet payment at a nearby supermarket provided crucial data that traced the suspects’ escape route into Rafael Castillo.
• The case has been formally classified as robbery aggravated by firearm in concurrence with homicide and assigned to the UFI Temática de Homicidios, with minors’ files sent to the juvenile court.
• Police seized a Bersa .380 pistol, ammunition and the clothing believed to have been worn during the attack, all of which are now subject to forensic and ballistic testing.
• In La Plata, the ESUR garbage-truck driver was detained after 83-year-old Manuel Coria’s death was reclassified as homicidio culposo, and authorities await autopsy and in-vehicle camera footage as the victim’s family disputes a suicide claim.