Williams Alexander Tapón was 24 years old and this weekend he was in the spotlight after the brutal attack on a referee who was directing an amateur soccer match, who suffered a serious injury. The images went viral on social networks and the Justice opened an investigation into the alleged “attempted murder”. But the story took a turn after Tapón was found lifeless on the train tracks. Who was the young man and what is known so far about the case.
stopper was from aguero neighborhoodlocated in the southern area of the Buenos Aires suburbs, and lived with his coupleAugustine, and her two children, one of two years and another of seven months. Furthermore, as reported, had a violent history and had been kicked out of two previous tournaments.
On Saturday, Tapón attacked the referee Cristian Ariel Paniagua who directed the party that disputed. As a result of a play, the 24-year-old man kicked the referee hard in the head, who ended up with serious injuries. For the aggression, the justice opened an investigation under the criminal classification of “attempted homicide.”
However, consulted about what happened with the referee, Plug He was immediately very sorry for the event, He assured that it was a furious attack that mowed him down and that he hit him “without realizing it”as he explained before in several television interviews that he gave this Monday, hours before he was found lifeless, with a shot and next to the train tracks.
“I was already angry and I hit him without realizing it. Today we were talking with the referee, I apologized. She clouded me. She didn’t want to. When I rescued myself it was cut ‘what did I do’. Everything was already different. Now everything is different, ”Tapón had said this Monday.
Plug He was registered with the Federal Administration of Public Revenues (AFIP) as a bricklayer and worked until April in a construction company in the town of Ranelagh.
The death of the young man is investigated by the prosecutor Alejandra Olmos Coronel. For now, they are carrying out a search with the aim of finding the weapon with which he took his life with a shot to the head, since the pistol was not found next to the body.
What is known about the death of Tapón
Beyond that, the young man, who was carrying the 10 on his back, was defendant this same Monday under the criminal classification of “Aggravated murder by treachery to the degree of attempt in the context of a sporting event.”
Hours later, it emerged that he had committed suicide with a gunshot to the head and was found on the railroad tracks, at the height of General Paz and General Heredia streets, according to police investigations.
“We still can’t determine anything in concrete, but supposedly it would be a suicide. The place was very dark and there were particular circumstances that are being investigated.”, he stated to telam a source with access to the case, who added that so far it is unknown if the young man left any letters.
What did Tapón’s wife say?
After learning of the death, the couple from Tapón, Augustine, assured that “after the notes they gave, he looked bad.” “He didn’t know what to answer when we asked him what he thought about what happened, when he always took everything lightly,” she said.
Meanwhile, while the police investigate what happened, he added that they never expected “this decision”, since Tapón “always showed himself to be strong”.Since we’ve been together, many terrible things have happened to us and he never gave up.. Until we found it there we didn’t believe it, ”she added.
“In the audio that he sends me saying goodbye, he told me ‘take care of our children’ and ‘I prefer that they all suffer at once than that they see me suffering every day in jail.’ They were his last words before doing what he did, ”Agustina explained in a television interview.
I received help, hotlines
Argentina has a new telephone line for mental health care, 24 hours a day and from anywhere in the country for crisis and emergency situations, by calling 0800-999-0091.
In addition, there is Line 135, of the Suicide Care Center, which attends 18 hours a day, anonymously, free of charge and voluntarily. The numbers (011) 5275-1135 or 0800 345 1435 are for the whole country.
The Mental Health Center Responds to CABA attends free of charge at 0800-333-1665, 24 hours a day, every day.
