José C. Paz: A remisero is murdered to steal his car at the door of a friend’s house

Remis driver murdered to steal his car – a grey Renault Megane model
2001 that he used to work- at the door of a friend’s house, located on Mayagüez streets between Fragata Sarmiento and Havana, in the Urquiza neighborhood, in the Buenos Aires town of José C. Paz. Telam, about the fact that it was committed around 7:40 p.m., and was recorded by the security cameras in the area, which allow to reconstruct the sequence of the crime. The victim is a 66-year-old man, identified as César Roberto Ortega, who had gone with his wife to his friend’s house to greet him for his birthday. “It was all very fast and they killed him for a car he used to work,” said the son-in-law of the victim, Kevin Arias, in statements to the media. “The two got out of the car and went to the gate of the house because they had gone to celebrate the birthday of their friend (Hector) Don Garay and killed him,” he added. According to judicial sources, Roberto tried to resist the assailants taking away his vehicle. “Shut up because I’m shooting you,” they threatened him and after a struggle, they shot him in the head. For his part, Hector, the friend, said that “the police arrived quickly but the ambulance never arrived.” “We are still waiting for her,” he told C5N. “Don Roberto didn’t tell me anything was coming and I stayed inside. When he arrived, I hear the wife screaming ‘they are struggling, they are struggling’, but when I go out, I find him lying there,” he lamented. The fact is investigated by the decentralized prosecutor’s office 22 of Malvinas Argentina, in charge of Alejandra Burgés, who in addition to waiting for the contribution of the security cameras, will later take a statement from the wife of the victim, who was still in a state of shock.

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