translated from Spanish: Mendoza: a couple were arrested for a woman’s femicide on Route 7

The suspects in the attack and murder were arrested by police personnel during a check to the Renault Scenic in which they were driving as they had a broken windshield. Police and judicial sources informed Télam that the troops established that both the driver, a 43-year-old man, and his accompanying partner were related to Adela Rodríguez’s 46-year-old crime. From the testimony that the defendants gave to the police it emerged that they knew the victim and his boyfriend, identified as Cristian Ivars (45), and that hours earlier they had shared a roast with them, so they were apprehended and made available to the prosecutor of Homicide, Andrea Lazo, who possibly imposed them for the fact. From the first skills it emerged that the two couples went to eat a roast on the high mountain, in the town of Uspallata, and in that meeting they also shared alcoholic beverages. After several hours, the four people decided to return aboard the main suspect’s car. For reasons that the researchers are trying to establish, on the return journey there was a discussion within the film between the driver, Rodriguez and his partner. In principle, the investigations believe that the fight was in the wake of the dangerous maneuvers that the driver performed along the way. In this context, Rodriguez and his boyfriend decided to get out of the vehicle on the side of Route 7 and, at that point, the motorist accelerated and ran them over to continue their journey. However, Within a few miles he turned around and returned to the site, got out of the car and attacked them with an axe.As a result of the attack, Rodriguez suffered head injuries that resulted in death at the site, as Ivars was injured and was found on the side of the road after a truck driver gave notice to emergency line 911.After the attack, the driver escaped and hours later in a police checkpoint, on Route 52 , in front of the Las Bóvedas neighborhood, police detected the broken windshield as a result of an alleged accident. After an interview with their occupants, officers determined that they were related to the murder of the woman and were put to justice. Prosecutor Lazo, who activated the femicide protocol for Rodriguez’s death, must determine the mechanics of the crime and the responsibility of the detained couple and their subsequent imputation.

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