Police have arrested the teenager accused of killing her boyfriend with two stab wounds in Remedios de Escalada, in the Lanos region.
According to police sources, The 16-year-old suspect was arrested at her uncle’s house in La Matanza..
The young woman whose identity will remain secret because she is a minor, She had been on the run since last Tuesday when she told police and a doctor that her boyfriend, Santiago Nahuel Lopez Monti, 20, was injured when he fell on the edges of the iron fence..
When examining the young man’s body, the doctor alerted the police that the two wounds were not caused by iron tips, but rather by stab wounds.
During a search of the house, police found a kitchen knife stuck in a toilet paper roll inside a piece of furniture.
The suspect told the SAME doctor before leaving the house: “He is still alive. Tell me which hospital they will take him to.” That was the last time they saw her until today, at the age of eight, when she was arrested at the home of a relative who had given her shelter.
According to the victim’s relatives, the suspect belonged to a drug-dealing clan.
The crime is being investigated by Public Prosecutor Juan Ignacio Collazo of the Juvenile Criminal Court of the Judicial Department of Lomas de Zamora.