The celebrations for Children’s Day had not yet ended this Sunday when Emma Guadalupe Morales, a two-year-old girl, died in a hospital in Tucuman. His dad had fired a bullet in the middle of a violent argument with two of his uncles.
Everything happened during a family reunion in a house in the area of Alem al 3000 of the provincial capital. Walter Ibarra, father of the victim, got into a fight with his two brothers-in-law while they ate and when the young men, aged 18 and 21, they surrounded him armed with knives, he drew a pistol from his clothes and began to fire.
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As indicated The GazetteIn the shooting, Ibarra wounded his wife’s brothers in the legs. It was not until a few minutes later that another of the people who were present in the house discovered that another projectile had also hit Emma, who was playing on the floor. The bullet impacted in the abdomen of the girl, who was rushed to the Hospital del Niño Jesús but died before arriving.
After the death of the little girl, her father and her two uncles were at the disposal of the prosecutor in charge of the investigation, Adriana Giannoni. In the house where the crime occurred, they kidnapped in a first raid a tumbera type pistol and a butcher knife; and later they also found a nine millimeter pistol, money and several doses of cocaine buried.
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In the next few hours they will investigate those involved to try to establish how the murder unleashed and the responsibility that each had in the tragic outcome. In addition, the Scientific Investigations Team and the Directorate of Dangerous Drugs intervened, together with the Federal Justice.
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