The young man couldn’t stop looking at the pictures that were showing on the TV screen. The news reported the nightmare experienced by a psychiatrist from Palermo, a victim of a gang of “Black Widows.” So, he didn’t hesitate and called 911. “One of the suspects is my brother, Abel Ruiz.”He said: More talk, less talk.
Then, after city police investigators decided, based on a comparison of the photograph of Abel Ruiz registered in the National Register of Persons (RENAPR), that it coincided with the images taken by the security cameras of the Palermo building where the victim lived, Judge Paola Gonzalez ordered a search of the suspect’s house in the village of Zavaleta, in the Paracas neighborhood of Buenos Aires, where two packets of pills (Clonazepam) were found. Under his bed mattress. and alplax) and a knife with properties similar to the one used to attack psychologist Oscar Antunez.
The suspect was not at home when city police officers carried out the action. He later surrendered at the District 4D police station of the Buenos Aires Security Force. He changed his features: he dyed blond.
In the last hours, The judge placed Gonzalez Ruiz on remand for the crime of aggravated robbery committed with a weapon, in a populated place, and in a gang..
“Besides the 911 call that revealed the identity of the accused, it was Ruiz himself who, within the written defense he presented with his defence, admitted to participating in the act charged against him, without prejudice to the other issues he dismissed, rooted in the use of a knife by one of his accomplices. But also his physical features and, in particular, The exact details provided by the victim regarding hole On the cheek and the Roman numeral tattoo that the defendant has on his neck, they exactly match the features shown by Ruiz.“, the judge explained when she justified the trial of the suspect, a decision she was able to reach Nation.
In the document he presented during his interrogation, the suspect said:He categorically denied that he used the knife in everything that happened, neither to strip the victim of her property, nor to kill her, nor to seek to escape punishment.Judicial sources explained.
“I didn’t know my partner would have a knife and use it, I don’t know if he grabbed it from there or took it. I don’t do things like hurt people, I never had the knife. It was my partner who got nervous and sent himself to use that. He betrayed us,” the victim said.The accused stated, according to the judicial file.
The incident for which Ruiz (21 years old) was arrested occurred between the night of the seventh and the early hours of the eighth of this month in an apartment in a building located in Paraguay at 4700 Palermo.
Ruiz, who called himself Julian and said he lived in the congressional district, met the victim through Tinder. After the first appointment, they agreed to meet at the psychiatrist’s apartment.
The suspect arrived at Antunez’s home at 10:30 p.m. On the seventh of this month. They had dinner. Around midnight, the psychiatrist fainted, “possibly as a result of the inadvertent ingestion of some narcotic or hypnotic substance that Ruiz had put in his drink.”
When he woke up at 3:45 the next day, Antunez was handcuffed and feet bound on the bed.
“The victim noticed the presence of two other men; one of them – with dark skin, short black hair, and a small mole on his face – was wearing a black shirt and pants and showed a noticeable state of nervousness and euphoria. The other had similar features (…) next to Ruiz, who was wearing a gray shirt with dark embroidery, a black shirt with white zippers and dark pants, and was wearing hole On the right side of his face, near his eye, he showed a tattoo of a star or cross on the right side of his neck and another in Roman letters. “Stay still, we’ll work on this.” and “Where is the money, where are the dollars?”“.
Antunez started screaming. He was asking for help. The criminal who was the most nervous said: “What are you doing!? I’ll kill you!” And I started hitting him. Using a butcher knife about 15 centimeters long and with a wooden handle, he “tried to stab him in the chest, to no avail, although he hit him in the left forearm,” according to the court file.
The attacker repeated his assault and tried to stab the victim in the abdomen, but he injured him in the left leg.
Finally, the Black Widows got loot of $7,000 and P500,000, a gray iPhone 17 Pro Max, a tinted Samsung S23 Plus cell phone and various items of clothing, including two pairs of sneakers.
now, Police investigators are trying to identify the other two “black widows” who participated in the attack. Based on security camera footage of the building, it was determined that they entered at 2:42 a.m., when Ruiz opened the door, and left with the stolen items at 3:48 a.m. on Saturday, November 8.
When trying the suspect, Judge Gonzalez said: “I consider that the charge against Abel Ruiz finds support in all the evidence collected, which was evaluated according to the rules of sound criticism that take into account the responsibility that fell on him in the event analyzed. Therefore, I find that the criterion of probability required at this procedural stage has been reached, to enhance the degree of reprimand with regard to the events described.”