A tragic attempted femicide took place on Thursday around 5 p.m. last Thursday in the La Roca neighborhood, in the western area of Concordia.
There, in a house on the street Spain and Cortada 54, Luis Garcia, 37, burst into her ex-partner’s birthday party Valeria Cumba27 years old, and shot him at least five times, all in front of his children who witnessed the tragic scene.
According to the first investigations, García used a .38 caliber revolver for the attack and after shooting Cumba, he committed suicide on the spot.
An ambulance arrived quickly and took Cumba to the Masvernat Hospitalwhere he remains in serious condition according to information provided by the portal The eleven.
Staff of the Seventh Police Station and Criminalistics Station went to the scene to begin investigations and secure the crime scene. Authorities are now working on gathering evidence and testimonies to clarify the details of the incident.
And in another attempted femicide with similar characteristics but without fatalities, which occurred at the beginning of this year, A woman and her one-and-a-half-year-old daughter were stabbed and beaten by the girl’s husband and father. who entered a home in Pilar’s district shouting “I have to kill them, the three of us have to die” and He attacked them with a knife, then try to commit suicide.
The violent attack occurred inside a House located on Los Olivos street at 1200in the Buenos Aires town of Manuel Albertiin the aforementioned district of northern Greater Buenos Aires, and the aggressor managed to escape from the scene but then hours later, he was arrested while walking disoriented on the train tracks in that area.
It was in that house where the 30-year-old woman and her 16-month-old daughter They were sleeping in a room when they were surprised by the couple and father of the minor, a 28 year old young man who, without any prior motive but in the midst of a nervous breakdown, entered the room armed with a knife shouting “I have to kill them, we all have to die,” and lunged forward and began stabbing his daughter first.
According to the investigation, the woman woke up instantly and managed to rescue the girl, whom she covered with her body to prevent him from continuing to stab her; however, it was then that she was also attacked by her partner with cuts to the head and a punch to the temple.
Finally, the woman managed to escape the attack and ran out of the house with her daughter, to be assisted by a driver who was just passing by the place, who took them to a first aid room located next to the 4th police station. by Pilar first and from there they were rushed to the Falcon Pediatric Hospital in Del Visowhere they were treated in the intensive care unit.
The sources indicated that the minor suffered serious head trauma from a knife cut and her mother suffered a sharp wound to the head.
For his part, after being on the run for several hours, The man was arrested while walking barefoot through the tracks of the Belgrano Norte railway. At the time of his arrest, he was wearing a black T-shirt, black shorts and a jacket in which he had a homemade knife which he is presumed to have used to commit the attack. Knives with blood stains were seized from the house where the attack occurred and will be examined by the Scientific Police.
Investigators said the couple was from the town of Jose C. Paz and that they had recently moved to Alberti. “So far there are no records that the man has psychiatric problems. They also have no complaints about gender violence,” explained a researcher.
He prosecutor Manuel Cayuela, in charge of the Functional Instruction Unit specialized in Gender Violence of Pilartook a statement from the victim, who stated that she had expressed to her partner her desire to separate.
