Overview

• Alejandro Ruffo is charged with aggravated homicide with multiple aggravating factors, an offense that carries a potential life sentence under Argentine law.
• While hospitalized, Ruffo allegedly told a doctor, “Lo asfixié para mandarle un mensaje a la mamá,” a remark reported to justice and incorporated into the investigative file despite not being formal testimony.
• Judge Gabriel Vitale of Guarantees Court No. 8 must rule on the prosecutor’s request to keep the preventive detention firm.
• A forensic psychiatric evaluation is scheduled for October 21 by expert Carmen Susana Mansilla to assess Ruffo’s mental state at the time of the act and his fitness to stand trial.
• After two weeks at Hospital Gandulfo following an apparent suicide attempt, Ruffo was discharged and is now held in a psychiatric ward at Unidad Penitenciaria No. 34 in Melchor Romero, as investigators cite witnesses, phone intercepts, security cameras, and school work among the evidence.