Overview

• On Tuesday, the victim’s sister testified that her father told her to check on her brother because he had shot him, and she found the 36-year-old semi-conscious in the street.
• Neighbors told the court they heard the accused say CPR was pointless because he had shot his son and claim he was being hit, though one neighbor said he saw no injuries on the father.
• The jury trial opened Monday in Valle de Uco before Judge Laura Guajardo, with Cristóbal Emiliano Almendra Blázquez, 72, charged with double aggravated homicide.
• Prosecutor Javier Pascua argues the defendant shot his son in the back on December 11, 2023, inside a home in La Consulta using a Beretta 28-gauge shotgun.
• The defense contends there was no intent to kill and attributes the death to ventilator-associated sepsis, while the necropsy notes both the thoracic gunshot injury with lobectomy and multiorgan failure from sepsis.