A woman she was shot to death today in front of her two children aged 13 and 17 at the door of her house from the Buenos Aires city of Cañuelas. It all started when he was intercepted by her ex-partner, whom he had denounced for gender violence and now he was arrested for femicide.
The victim, identified as María Isabel Esperati Aquino (40), had sent a message to her neighbors in 2021 in which she asked them that, if they saw her ex, Javier Alejandro Núñez (47) in the neighborhood, they will call the police.
What’s more, a friend of the victim revealed in statements to the press that the defendant he had previously wanted to hang her.
The femicide of Esperati Aquino It happened this morning, around 7:30, at the door of a home located in Paraná 736 de Cañuelas, where the woman lived with her 13 and 17-year-old children.
According to judicial sources, Núñez was present at the scene, who got out of his gray Volkswagen Surán car with a weapon and fired four shots, at least one of which hit the victim in the headwho fell seriously injured.
The couple’s eldest son, seeing his father armed, made his sister enter the house, following which he saw his mother, shot, fall to the ground.
After that, the attacker escaped, while neighbors called an ambulance and the police, and Esperati Aquino was rushed to the Martezzi Hospital, where she finally died due to the severity of the injuries sustained.
Shortly following, Nunez was arrested when he was mobilizing in his Volkswagen Surán at the intersection of Libertad and San Martín, regarding 800 meters from the crime scene.
Inside the car, the troops from the Cañuelas section found a 380-caliber Bersa pistol, which will be subjected to expert opinions, since it is believed to be the weapon used in the femicide.
The sources said that Núñez He had been denounced for gender violence some time ago and that currently did not have any current restriction measures.
Meanwhile, a friend of the victim who identified herself as Carina told the Todo Noticias channel this followingnoon that the woman had been separated from Núñez for a year and a half, when he “He directly went to kill her”.
“It’s incredible, a year and a half ago she had an episode where he wanted to hang her in her room, one of her children enters and jumps over a neighboring wall asking for help,” the friend recalled, adding that this event was labeled “minor injuries” and that the defendant “through his lawyers, they take him to a neuropsychiatric hospital for a month and he is released and leads his life normally.”
«Mary and her children they had a patrol car at the door and a panic button for thirty days, That was all the protection that Justice gave him in this country.“added the woman.
Carina said that until then her friend’s partner had never been violent, but that was the first episode, as a result of which she decided to separate.
«He directly went to kill her (because of that previous episode), she makes the complaint, with the skills, since her eyes were all black, her neck was marked and, well, there they put the anti-panic button and the patrol car at the door . Later, the Family Court asked that the children be reconnected with the father, which the boys did not want.“, he recounted.
In the investigation of the femicide, the local police and the prosecutor of Cañuelas Roberto Berlingueri intervene, who arranged to preserve the scene of the event for the rigorous expert reports, ordered the autopsy of the victim’s body and will investigate the detainee in the next few hours.
What did the alert message that I sent to the neighbors say?
“Good evening, neighbors. I wanted to inform you that on Friday night my husband attacked me and almost killed me. Currently there is a restraining order so (that) you should not approach less than 200 meters. I ask you please, if you see him hanging around the neighborhood, call 911. I’ll give you a photo of him and his car. Thank you“Said the message he shared with the neighbors.
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