His name was Agustín Ávila, he was 16 years old, he lived in Estación Juárez Celman and his life was cut short. The teenager went to have fun with friends at a bowling alley and ended up murdered in the context of a huge street brawl between two groups of young people. He was at dawn on Sunday in Jesús María, 46 kilometers north of the city of Córdoba.
Agustín was killed with a stab wound to the neck. It was believed that he had been hit with a broken bottle. False. His friend was injured with that element. Agustín was killed with a knife, sources with access to the investigation confided.
His body was left lying in the back of the José Hernández Amphitheater, where the Dressage and Folklore Festival takes place.
The traditional event has no relation to this brutal new episode of urban violence. In any case, the commotion is enhanced.
For the murder of the adolescent, the Police detained regarding twenty young people, between adults and minors. They were all caught because they had blood on their clothes and traces of a fight, it was said.
At sunset on Sunday, in a confusing statement from the prosecutor’s office in charge of the investigation, it was indicated that the case is being investigated and it was not specified, despite the consultations, if there are detainees and what charges.
It was implied that there are minors and adults under suspicion.
In any case, official sources asserted to The voice that a 15-year-old boy was arrested and charged with murder.
The brutal murder of the young man is part of a worrying sequence: at least 11 men have ended up murdered in the context of parties (or at the exits of these) in the last nine months in different parts of the province of Córdoba.
Many of these events were practically traced: the victims ended up being killed -either with punches or shots or blows- following being caught in the middle of insane fights or attacks (in revenge for previous fights) on public roads.
Sometimes, everything originates from a robbery; other opportunities, by belonging to a neighborhood or population; other times, due to a bad look.
We are talking regarding situations in which the unbridled consumption of alcohol and drugs is often evident in the midst of uncontrolled early mornings.
All a symptom of these times that run. And they have no brake.
Fight and crime in Jesús María
The latest drama occurred in the downtown area of Jesús María, a city that these days was at the center of attention in the country for its dressage and folklore festival. Now things have changed.
A few blocks from the amphitheater, at the exit of a well-known disco, a fight broke out between several young people. Sources with access to the case pointed out that it all happened following some kids were forcibly removed due to an incident in that bowling alley.
The concrete thing is that at least two groups mainly made up of young men (there were also girls) became involved in a huge street brawl. There were blows, blows, kicks, bottle blows, runs and more blows. It was around 5 o’clock.
Everything happened taking advantage of the fact that the Police were focused on the festival.
After a run that reached the track sector, there was a second fight. When the tumult stopped, a young man grabbed his neck and began to stumble. He was Agustín Ávila (16).
The teenager sat on the floor and ended up dead. A friend of his was left with cuts on his back made with a bottle.
“The boy was killed with a knife. They attacked him around the neck,” said a source with access to the case.
mass arrests
Alerted by calls to 911, several police units arrived at the scene. Dozens of uniformed officers began to arrest suspects in the area. Anyone who had blows, injuries or bloody clothes was delayed and taken to the police station,
Metal mitts, tips and even a tire were seized.
The prosecutor’s office ordered an exhaustive investigation to determine how and why what happened happened. Above all, who were the protagonists.
Official sources indicated that the first investigations determine that two sides fought (one from Colonia Caroya once morest the other from Estación Juárez Celman), although this has not been confirmed.
In this context, it is believed that everything started with a fight over the theft of a cap or shirt.
At dusk, official sources indicated that a minor under 15 years of age was imprisoned for homicide
The investigation continues.
crime sequence
The other 10 homicides that occurred at party outings in the last nine months were:
- With bullets. In April 2022, a young man accused of having been stealing cell phones at a youth party in the Parque Las Rosas neighborhood, in the Capital, ends up shot to death by a plainclothes police officer. This cash was the father of a young man who had suffered the theft of his cell phone.
- With bullets. In May, a young man is persecuted and killed by other men following leaving a birthday party that was held at dawn in a house in Río Cuarto.
- Fatal mistake on the track. In May, a plainclothes policeman punched another policeman without uniform, who fell to the ground, hit himself, and died. It was in the context of a fight in a Cuban music bar in the center of Córdoba. The case is framed as preterintentional homicide.
- To stab A 44-year-old man is stabbed to death in the context of a fight with other men following leaving a party in Río Cuarto.
- With bullets. A man that was shot in the head by another group at the exit of a night bar in San Francisco.
- Fight following the dance. In Alta Gracia, a 19-year-old teenager dies following a fight between two groups of young people following a dance. A young man was sent to trial for felony manslaughter.
- Double murder. In the Estación Flores neighborhood, in the Capital, two young people are shot in the head by a mob on a motorcycle as they leave a party in a clandestine nightclub. It happened one morning in October.
- Shots. In September, once once more, a fight over cell phone theft in a party room in Villa El Libertador ends with an 18-year-old youth shot to death.
- Fatal beating in the bar. In December, a 34-year-old man was beaten to death in the context of a fight recorded in a bar in Cruz del Eje. Three neighbors were arrested by court order.