Overview

• Rodríguez, 37, was convicted in an oral trial for stabbing his neighbor Jonathan Alberto Salinas during a street dispute on October 7, 2022.
• Salinas, 32, died after more than 20 days in hospital from a chest wound sustained at San Nicolás and Ocampo in the Cinco Esquinas neighborhood.
• Witnesses said Rodríguez had pressured the newly arrived Salinas to pay a “derecho de piso,” a dynamic the victim described as “me aplica mafia.”
• Police detained Rodríguez days after the attack when an officer recognized him near Pellegrini and Francia, and he was charged with homicidio simple.
• The three-judge panel of Gonzalo Fernández Bussy, Mariano Aliau and María Trinidad Chiabrera imposed the 13-year sentence at the Centro de Justicia Penal.