The small kiosk run by Pablo Orlando Moyano (70), affectionately known as “Don Pablo”, has become the epicenter of the tragic crime on 4746 Juan de Urdinola Street, in the José Ignacio Díaz 3rd Section neighborhood of the city of Córdoba. . On Saturday at noon, the red tapes of the Córdoba Police delimited the scene where Moyano was found murdered on the floor of his home. He had a stab wound in the middle of his chest.
The clock showed approximately 12 when, it is believed, the violent episode occurred in the house that housed the humble business.
The front window, usually used for customer service, showed signs of having been forced into the blinds, while desolate chaos reigned inside.
Everything was discovered by Vanesa Abigaíl Plaza (26), a niece of “Don Pablo”, who told the authorities that she had found her uncle lifeless, lying on the ground, soaked in his own blood.
According to her testimony, shortly before the discovery, the deceased’s son, Pablo Ezequiel Moyano (31), who suffers from developmental delay, showed up at the back of the home she lives with her family.
According to him, the boy, visibly upset, shouted that he had seen his father dead and left the house.
So Plaza ran towards the business – always as told to the Police – until he reached the crime scene. Everything was disorder, as she would later say.
Disorder and death
The young woman observed an intriguing detail: a chair was next to the forced window and there was a shoe print that caught her attention.
It looked like a woman’s footprint.
Minutes later a team from Emergency Service 107 arrived at the scene. It was the doctors who confirmed that the merchant did not have vital signs. He had a short puncture wound in his chest.
The investigators began to draw a timeline of the events and direct their attention toward “Don Pablo’s” inner circle.
“There is something else behind all this,” they repeated from the beginning in low frequency.
For investigators, it is unlikely that someone entered through the shutter from outside.
They wonder who or who were with the victim during the last hours and what the family ties were like.
Was he emotionally linked to a woman, over whom he could have had some type of confrontation with her or with other neighbors in the area? The answer appeared on the investigation table in the last few hours and is gaining strength. In any case, other hypotheses are not closed.
Although at first, the case was in the hands of prosecutor Lourdes Quagliatti (who had called for Robbery and Theft investigations), the file later passed into the hands of her counterpart Eugenia Pérez Moreno, who immediately ordered the first instructions. She called for investigations by the Police Homicide Department.
Autopsy results and other reports are awaited.
Also crucial, sources close to the case confide, will be the testimonies that could emerge in the neighborhood, which at this time is sheltered in a hermetic silence, suggesting that dismay and confusion prevailed over what happened.
It will be a long-term investigation, they anticipated, and no one dares to rule out any hypothesis.
There are still no charges or arrests for the incident.
The house is guarded by a police security guard.
Neighborhood concern
“Crimes are not common. We are not used to them, nor do we want to get used to them. But incidents of insecurity are more repeated every day, when a motorcycle goes down the collector and enters and leaves the internal streets stealing cell phones and wallets, often with violence,” a neighbor told La Voz and claimed to have been an occasional customer. of “Don Pablo”.
The neighborhood is located in a “complex” area, as described by neighborhood sources.
“Two blocks away there is a settlement that grows a little more every day. We are next to Circunvalación Avenue and some streets are dark, unprotected, without police patrols. That’s why these things happen in broad daylight,” said another neighbor close to the victim’s home.
When asked about the man’s family life, all sources agreed when talking about a family that lived in confinement, that did not appear much on the streets of the neighborhood, with no signs that could raise suspicions about situations of violence in the inner circle.
While concern grows, the family does not speak and the investigations seek to find the murderers.
