Overview
- The man who was stabbed, Matías Julián Álvarez Guardia, was wounded during a dispute at a home on Donovan al 1400 in Resistencia and died after surgery following the August 2 attack.
- A preliminary autopsy found at least six stab wounds, including two at the base of the neck with one described as fatal, and determined death from hypovolemic shock leading to cardiorespiratory arrest.
- Prosecutors Juan Martín Bogado and Ana González de Pacce ordered prisión preventiva on August 18 after Victoria Cantero again refused to ampliar indagatoria and she was moved into custody at a women's penitentiary pending transfer arrangements.
- A forensic psychiatric evaluation concluded Cantero is mentally competent and understands the criminality of her acts while her defense advances a gender-violence and self‑defense narrative supported by witness statements and other materials.
- Investigators continue to add technical reports—phone, cybercrime, camera, laboratory pericias plus witness testimony and seized items—and the preventive detention is being used to secure the criminal process for a charge that carries a possible life sentence if convicted.