He was placed in pretrial detention for 180 days while the investigation continues

The homicide occurred at the exit of an amateur soccer game in the 1 Battalion of Engineers of Montevideo

The man who murdered another man on Sunday at a baby soccer game assured the court on Monday that “he did not want to kill him.” He did so in the context of a hearing in which he was not supposed to testify.< /p>

Last Sunday, a 50-year-old man was shot to death while different baby soccer and amateur soccer games were being played in the Uruguayan neighborhood of Cerrito de la Victoria.< /b>According to reports, the attacker waited for the game in which the victim’s son was participating to end and, when the man and his son were getting into the vehicle, he fired several shots that hit the victim’s body and head. .

Despite having been transferred to a polyclinic, the seriousness of the injuries caused his death. Meanwhile, the murderer was captured minutes later and charged on Tuesday with a very especially aggravated homicide. At the time of his arrest a 38-caliber revolver was seized from him and he is currently in preventive detention for 180 days,while the investigation progresses.

Both men’s children played baby soccer together and, as it turned out, the families were friends. He is the father of three young men, he had been a police officer -although now he worked as a blacksmith- and he had no criminal record. As it was known, there were no previous episodes of violence between the two families or within their closest nucleus.

Therefore, the Prosecutor’s Office investigates “a serious problem linked to some type of love affair,” prosecutor Adriana Edelman said in a second hearing that took place this Tuesday and was broadcast by El Observador. Several witnesses are waiting to be summoned to testify, but the commotion over the event “is making it difficult to carry out” the investigation, the prosecutor said. In addition, she added that in the 180 days of preventive detention, an investigation will be sought into the relationship between the victim and the wife of the now accused.

The defense had argued for considering pre-trial detention unnecessary, given that “there had been a problem with the deceased person, not with his family environment, and there would be “no reason to think that the man would influence the witnesses”. Prosecutor Edelman requested this measure due to the possibility that the murderer pressured the witnesses.

As the investigation could determine, the man asked the victim to get out of the vehicle to talk, but she asked him to let him take his 14-year-old son in the car and then they talked. Faced with this situation, the aggressor “could not self-regulate in that violence that aroused, putting at risk the life not only of the person who lost it, but of the adolescent and the hundreds of people who were around him”, witnessing the different sports activities that were held that noon, Edelman said.

Although he acknowledges having ended the life of a man, in different fragments of his statements before the Justice, he is seen to be repentant, afraid and asking for help in case of possible suicide attempts: “Can I do any homework? Because I’m afraid of ending me”, he told the judge.

However, his lawyer, Jennifer Saavedra, stated that his client would not make any statements about the events that occurred on Sunday in these first instances of the judicial process.

In the same neighborhood, less than a kilometer from the place of the homicide that occurred last Sunday, two young people aged 22 and 24 were gunned down in October 2021. As reported by Underlined, the Scientific Police found more than 70 shell casings and the neighbors claimed to have heard at least 100 shots. Two months later, in December of last year, another 22-year-old man was killed in the same area after receiving two bullets in the abdomen. These events are just a sample of the territorial war between drug gangs that is taking place in Uruguayan neighborhoods.

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