Overview
- Two off-duty Gendarmería cabos exchanged gunfire with would-be robbers outside a home in Aldo Bonzi, killing one assailant during an attempted theft.
- The dead attacker was identified as 22-year-old Kevin Agustín Escobar, and investigators seized a Bersa Thunder Pro 9 mm pistol at the scene.
- A gendarme was shot in the mouth, his partner suffered an abdominal wound, and a passing delivery worker was hit in the leg and is out of danger after treatment.
- Police units and DDI teams are conducting searches for suspected accomplices from a group initially reported as five to six attackers using cars.
- In a separate case in the same district, a young man named Gastón was found fatally stabbed at Eduardo Vogel and Caruso, and investigators are seeking his girlfriend, Nataly Ayelén, as a suspect after forensic confirmation of multiple knife wounds.