The police officer prosecuted for the murder of a young man in La Favela admitted to having fired his weapon

The agent of the Buenos Aires Police who participated in the persecution of Nahuel Silva (19), the young man who had an arrest warrant and ended up dying in The slums of The Silveracknowledged the shots fired with his weapon, but warned that he did not intend to kill.

The second lieutenant of the Departmental Investigations Directorate (DDI) local, Fernando Ezequiel Carrera Simonetti, is being prosecuted for “doubly qualified homicide for being a police officer and abusing his duties,” which is known as “trigger-happy.” He was detained by order of the Guarantee judge Agustín Crispoat the request of the prosecutor Cecilia Corfield who maintains that he was the author of the young man’s crime.

Simonetti career now He declared that he shot twice, the first towards the fence of the Police Circle property and the second a few centimeters from the victim’s head, although he assures that it was involuntary..

According to the newspaper The day, The police officer said that he was relegated in the chase because his ankle was sprained and that he tried to stop the young man with a persuasive shot.. Then his partner fell to the ground, rolling next to the other person being pursued, who was armed. The now accused wanted to subdue that individual and that was when he heard two shotgun blasts that stunned him, before unintentionally firing his weapon again, due to a reflex action “near the man’s head.”

He said he took two steps back, in shock. “I want it to be clear that I never had the intention of killing anyone, I went to work”declared before the head of the Functional Instruction Unit (UFI) No. 5 of La Plata, who also said that he suffers from an eye disease.

He acknowledged having made the mistake of “not holstering” before subduing Silva and that it was the first time he had participated in a confrontation.

The homicide in La Favela

The investigation began on May 9 in the La Favela neighborhood. The first hypothesis was that the young man had shot himself when he was cornered, but prosecutor Corfield maintains that the person who executed him was one of the police officers who was chasing him.

As he told 0221.com.ar, one of the indications that the prosecutor considered to request the arrest is the result of the expert evidence that identified that the lethal shot came from Carrera’s Bersa Thunder Pro 9 millimeters. The information was released after the autopsy carried out on the victim’s body, in which the projectile was removed from the body and after which it was compared with the seized pistols, of which there were 46.

That Thursday night, May 9, the accused officer pursued Silva in a cell phone along with an unknown number of agents. The 19-year-old crashed into a tree in the area of ​​18th and 528th, after receiving a bullet in the head.

According to the first versions, the officers had arrived at the scene precisely looking for the young man who had an arrest warrant for a homicide that occurred in February of this year and who had shot himself during the escape. However, after investigations they discovered that the shot had been fired by one of the police officers who were pursuing him.

The family of the deceased maintains that he was there randomly, as he was trying to recover a motorcycle stolen from his girlfriend’s sister and that he became nervous the moment he saw the police presence, so he decided to escape at full speed. . It was his mother who also declared, to eliminate the version of suicide, that he had not gone out with a weapon in the attempt to recover the motorcycle.

“I saw that he had no weapons or anything, I say this because later he supposedly had a weapon and I am sure that when he showed me I did not see any weapon in sight,” said the mother, who crossed him just before he left for the The slums.