“I had problems with this family for many years. The banging noises at the door of my house drove me crazy.”. With this argument, Juan Carlos Magen (68) tried to explain the outbreak of anger and violence that ended with the shooting of his neighbor Daniel Néstor Rubén “Pepo” Ramírez (45) in the first minutes of this Christmas.
Magen was arrested in the early morning of December 25th in his apartment on the first floor of Tower C1 in the residential complex 4 and 609 in the airport district of The silver. Using a Bersa Thunder .40, he shot the owner of the apartment directly below him on the ground floor.
But Daniel Ramírez’s brother also threatened. “I’m going to kill you just like I killed that other guy.”he would have warned when the man tried to stop him. He even put the gun on his stomach and He pulled the trigger, but no shots were fired.
For this reason, prosecutor Patricio Barraza of the Criminal Court of La Plata investigated Magen for the crimes of “murder with a heavy firearm and qualified threats”. The defendant will be held at a police station in La Plata and will be handed over to the public prosecutor’s office within 24 hours of his arrest.
stomach admitted the fact at the inquest: “These people are problematic and we had discussions with neighbors about questions about living together in the building.”
Court sources reported Clarion that there is a “case closed”in which only temporal and local circumstances have to be fulfilled. For this reason, some expertise and the collection of further witness statements continue.
Meanwhile, Clarín has access to the preliminary autopsy report on Ramírez’s body, which reveals that the man died of “hypovolemic shock and intrathoracic hemorrhage due to the passage of a projectile.”
The coroner determined that this was the case “A one centimeter projectile wound in the chest“, at the level of the sternum,” which caused his death. And in return he received another shot in the area of his right shoulder.
“It was about a close-up execution” concluded the experts.
As this newspaper was able to find out, the crime occurred after 12:30 a.m. this Christmas Thursday on one of the landings that connect the ground floor to the upper floors, where the now accused was arguing with the Ramírezes.
“It was the same scene where he threatened one of the brothers and ended up killing the other,” a source told the investigation.
Previously, there had been disagreements and disputes with the victim’s family, according to Magen’s statement and other stories gathered in the case. “It all started in the afternoon because of the noise and because They didn’t give us any peace. “They started early with the rockets and pyrotechnics,” explained the defendant. He even said they called 901 because of “annoying noises.” The prosecutor’s office is trying to verify this information.
During the arrest process, officers determined various firearms in the stomach department: another Bersa Thunder .40 Pro pistol, with ammunition in the chamber and a magazine; a specially reinforced .20 caliber shotgun with ammunition in the chamber; and a 22-inch air rifle.
Given this situation, the public prosecutor’s office requested reports from the weapons registry. It is believed they were registered and he had the papers to own them.
“Pepo” – the nickname of the murdered man – was involved a service cooperative Responsible for collaborative tasks in the apartment complex area. He also had connections with the delegation from Villa Elvira, one of the most populous neighborhoods in the southeast of the capital, Buenos Aires.
He was married to Malvina and had three children: Mariano, Laura and Miguel. They had spent Christmas Eve with her brother’s family and other friends on the ground floor, according to police who arrived at the scene after the murder.
The 609 and 4 apartment complex in the airport district — La Plata Airport is 12 blocks away — features three towers that were built more than 50 years ago. In the early hours of the 25th, when they heard about the crime from other houses, it happened a neighborhood reaction.
The protesters set fire to a Peugeot 504 belonging to Magen and threw stones to break the windows of his house. His wife and a son, who live with him, lived in the house.
For her part, Malvina, the wife of “Pepo”, told the press this Thursday about the scene that ended with the murder of her husband: “After toasting, we went to bring my husband’s daughter home and when we returned he was already waiting on the stairs for us shots. And when she saw him, he was in the stairwell, still alive, approached and said “You’re still alive, right?” Then he threw it again.
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