Benjamin Ioshua Speed, 14 years old, was wanted since the day before yesterday. He disappeared following leaving his house to go to classes at the Sofía E. Broquen Higher Normal School in Living Languages in Spangenberg, known as Lengüitas. He never made it to the educational establishment. His family filed a complaint and the search for him spread on social networks until his family received a message demanding 80,000 pesos in ransom. So, he began to investigate as if it were a kidnapping for extortion. Today, After a search carried out by personnel of the Argentine Federal Police (PFA), the boy was found wounded with a shot to the head, in the woods of Palermo. Beside him was a .22 caliber revolver. Now they are trying to determine if it was a suicide attempt or if the teenager was the victim of a crime.
This was reported to THE NATION research sources. Velozo was found today at dawn on an embankment, behind Club Amigos, in Palermo, a few meters from the Belgrano Norte Railroad tracks. He was rushed to the Gutiérrez Hospital, where he underwent surgery. His condition is very serious. The projectile entered through the temple; there is no exit hole. He is in an induced coma, with a guarded prognosis.
As it was told, The case began to be investigated as a kidnapping for extortion following the family received a message to the phone number that had been published as a contact on social networks.where they demanded 80,000 ransom.
“It was possible to determine that the phone from which the extortion message was sent was activated near a prison in Florencio Varela. It is assumed that criminals took advantage of the dissemination of the disappearance, which included a family phone number and, following seeing the search posts on social networks, tried to carry out a scam,” said a source in the case.
After the disappearance was reported, the fiscal Santiago Marquevichwhich subrogates the Buenos Aires Criminal and Correctional Prosecutor No. 15. Marquevich and the secretary Ariel Laplana took the first steps of evidence.
After the extortive message, Ramiro García, secretary of the Fiscal Unit Specialized in Extortive Kidnappings (Ufese) and detectives from the South Anti-Kidnapping Department of the PFA joined the investigation.
“Today, at 2 o’clock, the father of the adolescent received a call from his son where, with a broken voice, he told him that he was in a place full of stones,” explained a source in the case.
As it was determined that the communication had been made from the vicinity of the Saldías station, of the Belgrano Norte Railway, PFA detectives carried out a search and found the adolescent injured.
Velozo He was found wounded with a gunshot wound to the head. Next to him was a revolver and a cell phone.” explained the sources consulted.
Now, the detectives in the case are analyzing the footage from the security cameras installed in the area where the adolescent was found injured to try to determine how and when he arrived at the place and if he was accompanied by anyone.
Investigators are also trying to determine who owned the gun that was seized when the teen was found injured.
Although a number of test measures still remain, in principle, kidnapping for extortion would be ruled out. It is being investigated whether the adolescent attempted suicide or if he was the victim of another type of crime.
“Due to the characteristics of the case, kidnapping for extortion would already be ruled out. Now we have to determine what happened,” said a source from the investigation.
At this time, Velozo’s classmates, who was in his first year at Lengüitas, were meeting in a house, dismayed by the situation.
