The 72-year-old man who remained barricaded with a firearm since Sunday evening in a house in Huétor Tájar together with his two grandchildren, ages 9 and 14, has killed each and dedicated suicide, based on the investigation. open. It was the Civil Guard brokers who, upon getting into the home this Monday morning, discovered the three lifeless our bodies. The tragedy of this household started two months in the past, in a visitors accident the place the daughter and spouse died (mom and grandmother of the kids respectively) when the alleged parricide was behind the wheel. The minors had been additionally touring collectively however had been in a position to save their lives. The grandfather was receiving specialised take care of the psychological well being issues he had suffered for the reason that accident, for which he felt “responsible”, based on the mayor of Huétor Tájar, Fernando Delgado, who added that nobody may have thought that the household scenario may attain “this excessive.”
As sources from the Civil Guard confirmed to this newspaper, the idea they’re working with is that he would have taken his personal life hours after killing the kids, though they’re ready to know the definitive outcomes of the post-mortem to find out have the ability to specify the hours extra. For his half, the Authorities delegate, Pedro Fernández, has defined, in responses to the media, that The grandfather took his personal life when the brokers entered the home, which passed off round 8:20 a.m. on Monday, when the brokers who had been on the doorways of the home noticed that there was no motion. Fernández has additionally defined that the our bodies of the minors had been positioned in numerous rooms and that certainly one of them had gunshot wounds whereas the opposite confirmed no indicators.
In response to investigation sources, the spouse and daughter of the alleged assassin died final March in a visitors accident in Loja because of a collision with a wall in a car that was pushed by the 72-year-old man and by which his grandchildren, who had been injured, had been additionally touring, though the delegate has specified that this “shouldn’t be decisive for the investigation of those occasions.”
In response to the info identified at the moment, the reason for the accident was as a consequence of a fainting of the motive force, the grandfather, which might clarify his subsequent struggling. On account of that accident, the daughter (the one one within the marriage) and grandmother died, whereas the 2 grandchildren additionally suffered accidents, however managed to avoid wasting their lives.
For Fernando Delgado, mayor of the municipality, the grandfather “was not very properly” after this accident. In reality, some neighbors level out that he wanted psychological assist after what occurred, however he assures that nobody in Huétor Tajar thought “that he was going to do what he did.” reality”, which has meant a “catastrophe” and a “tragedy” for this city within the West.
For example of the grandfather’s attachment to his grandchildren, Delgado has defined, in statements collected by Efe, that this previous Friday the oldest of the 2 youngest participated in a race organized by the institute for the festivities in honor of San Isidro. The boy, in a wheelchair because of the penalties he nonetheless had from the accident, participated within the race pushed by his highschool classmates and carefully adopted on a bicycle by his grandfather.
“They had been regular households, humble, hard-working, good neighbors,” summarized the mayor, who identified that the daddy of the 2 minors, an administrator who works on the municipality’s highschool the place the eldest of his youngsters studied, stays sedated and below well being surveillance. “Nobody anticipated this grandfather to do what he did,” added Delgado, who interpreted that one thing had occurred to the septuagenarian to do one thing so horrible.
Negotiations since Sunday
In response to Fernández, it began yesterday Sunday afternoon on the barricaded man’s residence, when the neighbors noticed him having an argument together with his son-in-law and father of the minors, who had been additionally in the home. The person displayed a weapon and his son-in-law left the house, and the neighbors, who heard “the scenario of battle” between the 2, alerted round 9:45 p.m. to 112, which notified the Civil Guard.
The brokers went there accompanied by a mediator who was in touch with the grandfather “virtually completely so as to negotiate an answer to the battle,” based on the delegate, who specified that the person carried a looking shotgun always. with which he got here to fireplace two photographs within the air from the window when the civil guards arrived to warn that he was armed. The Civil Guard activated the protocol and the Particular Intervention Unit traveled there together with one other negotiator who took over from the earlier one and who was negotiating “peacefully.”
The negotiation continued till 5 within the morning, when the grandfather introduced that they had been going to cease speaking as a result of he would quickly have to organize the 2 youngsters to go to high school. At that second, “utterly belief” within the phrases of the previous man and look forward to the grandchildren to come back out however when eight within the morning arrives and this occasion doesn’t happen, the brokers put together to enter.
Three days of mourning
The Huétor Tajar Metropolis Council has declared three days of mourning after a 72-year-old man killed his two grandchildren in that city. On the identical time, the Metropolis Council has introduced the suspension of the Could truthful in honor of San Isidro, patron saint of the city, which ended as we speak.
By means of a message on its social networks, the Metropolis Council has proven its remorse after what occurred and “has supplied all its help and condolences to the households of these affected.