He murder of an 11-year-old boy by alleged drug traffickers in Rosario it unleashed the anger of the victim’s relatives and neighbors, who violently protested this Monday, March 6, throwing stones at the alleged perpetrator of the crime.
Máximo Jerez was killed and three other children were injured, as a result of a shooting in the Los Pumitas neighborhood, north of Rosario, when a birthday was being celebrated. The shooting attack was around 2:30 this Sunday in the vicinity of Cabal and San José, in the Los Pumitas neighborhood.
The local police arrived at the place of the demonstration, in the “Los Pumas” neighborhood, and arrested the accused of the crime and three relatives. The neighbors began to demolish the detainee’s house, taking all some belongings.
The police repressed with rubber bullets injuring some neighbors, including the father of the murdered child.
The neighbors dismantled the suspect’s house with sledgehammers, hammers and stones, where they denounced that it was used as a bunker to sell drugs, according to police sources.
These are the latest developments in the case:
Violent protest at the house of the accused of the crime
The incidents began following noonthe wake for the child shot to death on Saturday night in Rosario has already finished. A group of neighbors and relatives from Jerez approached a house located at 1300 Cabal bis street, owned by the suspect.
The man is targeted as the leader of a gang dedicated to drug dealing along with his two children.
Without the presence of the security forces, the residents began to throwing stones at one of the people who was taking refuge on the roof of his house. A woman who identified herself as Máximo Jerez’s cousin accused the man he was being attacked of being “the drug trafficker who killed” his cousin.
There they began to throw stones at the house and set the motorcycle on fire. The man who lived there, nicknamed “El Salteño”, he began to defend himself with a firearm from a terrace. This did not stop the victim’s neighbors and relatives who continued to throw stones and set his motorcycle on fire. One of them hit the alleged murderer in the face.
As the house was demolished, the neighbors applauded and “marked” other houses that they considered to be used as drug kiosks.
The neighbors They took the refrigerator, they dismantled the bathrooms and they took the toilets and even the dogfollowing which they started a fire inside the property that was extinguished following a few minutes.
Personnel from the Special Operations Troops (TOE) returned to the place following 3:00 p.m. together with firefighters to put out the flames that were registered in another house also attacked by the neighbors.
What happened to Máximo Jerez
The event occurred on Sunday morning in the Empalme Graneros neighborhood when the 11-year-old boy was at the door of his house with other boys. From one moment to the next, a man started shooting at some people and that was where the tragic outcome was triggered.
for the shooting, Máximo died following being shot in the back while three other minors, two 13-year-olds and a 2-year-old girl, were injured. and they were transferred to the North Zone hospital where they are in a reserved state.
The girl was shot in the arm while one of the adolescents had a bullet impact in the chest for which he underwent emergency surgery and the other has a bullet in the mouth.
The director of the Children’s Hospital in the North Zone of Rosario, Mónica Jurado, said that the child “arrived lifeless” at the hospital.
“I was finishing the birthday, it had been simple, with pizza and juice. The boys were at the door. It was crazy”recounted a relative of the minors in statements to the local press.
In all of 2023, four minors have already been murdered in the Rosario department, the newspaper reported. The capital. This figure is added to the 33 fatalities between the ages of 0 and 18 that occurred during 2022, of which 29 were shot and 26 in contexts of drug crime.
The prosecutor investigating the case: “All limits have been crossed”
He Prosecutor Adrián Spelta, of the Intentional Homicide Unit on duty and in charge of investigating the caseregretted that “all limits were run” with the death of the baby. “The presence of children was generally an obstacle or a code to avoid this type of attack, today no longer. All the limits have been run,” he said.
thus analyzed the episode that occurred this weekend in the Los Pumitas neighborhood, north of Rosario, where unknown persons opened fire on people who were on a sidewalk and killed an 11-year-old boy, while among the injured there are two girls of 13 and a girl of 2.
“Obviously, there is a conflict with a particular gang in that neuralgic point of the citya conflict that triggered a shooting that no longer has limits, because all the limits were run.” He said:
“Unfortunately, in this attack four children were injured, one of them died from a shot he received from behind,” he added in statements to LT8.
The prosecutor held that “People in charge of this type of criminal behavior do not value their own lives and much less that of others, and especially that of young children”.
“In previous events, threatened people went with their children next door and lowered the window because the presence of the boy next to them prevented attacks, but today it is no longer a valued element to avoid an attack,” he recalled.
Regarding the criminal gang designated for the homicide, the prosecutor said: “They are known names, names where perhaps their referents are known because they participated in other events of this nature and where we are investigating. Even the federal justice itself must be investigating because behind In all this there is a drug business that is the engine of all these attacks”
The aunt of the murdered child spoke: “We cannot live like this. We are tired”
The aunt of the murdered boy assured this Monday that in his family they are “all destroyed” and that it is no longer possible to “live like this” in the city of Santa Fe.
“We cannot live like this, the boys are innocent and now I am going to the club to receive my nephew’s body. We are all devastated, they are healthy boys. He had played football, finished at 18 and what happened happened”Antonia said.
The woman stated that the neighborhood lives devastated by crimes related to drug trafficking and that they are fed up with similar events happening every day: “We are so tired of being robbed, they killed me; the neighborhood is in mourning, they are all angry “, said.
“The only thing I ask is that justice be done and everyone knows who are the ones who sell the drugs, take over the houses and spread themselves out,” he said.
The health of the other three boys injured in the shooting
The other three boys injured in the same episode – aged 2, 13 and 14 – continue to be hospitalized this Monday “with good evolution”, although one of them is still in intensive care.
The director of the Children’s Hospital Zona Norte de Rosario, Mónica Jurado, reported in television statements that the three boys who are still hospitalized were admitted at the same time as Jerez, with “firearm wounds with different injuries” although with “good evolution”. .
“Two children are in a joint hospitalization room, with their relatives, evolving. The two-year-old girl has an injury and a fracture of the proximal humerus. The fourteen-year-old has an injury to the mouth, to the upper lip, which injured parts soft, but did not cause bone damage,” added the doctor.
Regarding the 13-year-old boy, the medical director said that “he is in the intensive care room, in a reserved state, but with a good evolution, without respiratory assistance, with liver injury and pneumothorax, for which he has a tube to drain that injury.”
Jurado explained that the 14-year-old boy remembers “spitting out the bullet, so the projectile probably hit some other surface and that’s why it didn’t do as much damage.” –
“Enough of killing our students,” say the teachers of Rosario
The Santa Fe Teachers Association (Amsafe) declared a duel following the crime of Máximo Jerez and released a text in which it demands that they stop “killing” “the students” of the schools in the province, who kept the flags at half mast as a sign of mourning.
“Enough of killing our students. The situation in the region is increasingly serious. Violence grows and every day takes new lives from us. Every day there are more boys and girls murdered. Today, in a school in the north of Rosario we have another empty bench,” says a written text from the teachers.
The statement adds that “it is not that he moved. He did not leave school. Maxi, a boy of just 12 years old, was murdered. We cannot allow this to continue like this. We cannot accept it with resignation. Where are the rights of children when they do not nor the right to life is respected”.
“The State, the governments, are responsible for the situation. They talk a lot but do nothing to stop so many deaths. Let’s raise our voices from each school. Let’s leave the flag at half mast. Stop killing our students.”
Aníbal Fernández denounced “political caranchismo” regarding the violence in Rosario
The Security Minister, Aníbal Fernández, today accused sectors of the opposition of making “political caranchismo” with the security crisis that the city of Rosario is going through, while highlighting the “great effort” made by the national government to assist Santa Fe with the dispatch of more than 3,500 Gendarmerie troops to that province, among other measures.
In Rosario, the number of homicides related to criminal organizations increased
From 2020 to this year, Rosario -where 10 shootings per day are recorded- registered an increase in homicides where there was prior planning, among which are those that are commissioned by the dispute between drug gangs.
In 2020, 74.3% of homicides were planned, while last year the statistic reached 75.8% of the total: only in January of this year in Rosario the percentage exceeded 73%, that is, that in most found that there was a minimal planning component. Three out of every four homicides in the Rosario department were planned.
So far this year, in Rosario there have been 63 homicides and February was the month with the most registered intentional deaths of that period with 31 victims. Likewise, at the provincial level, homicides framed in the midst of disputes in criminal organizations or within an illegal economy increased, with more than 56% of cases so far this year.
Also from the data prepared by the Public Security Observatory, it is highlighted that, in Rosario, homicides tend to increase during night hours and, above all, on weekends. 80% of the events in 2023 were during the night and the most brutal day according to statistics was Saturday.
NEWS IN DEVELOPMENT
You may also like
