After being found guilty in a popular jury verdict last month, Retired police officer Rafael Horacio Moreno was sentenced to eight years and six months in prison for the death of his neighbor Sergio David Díaz. which occurred early in the morning of December 25, 2024, after a heated argument over the volume of music during the celebrations.
The twelve citizens who made up the jury agreed to find Moreno responsible for manslaughter and illegal possession of a weapon of war. The weapon was a .38 caliber Taurus revolver.
“The carrying has clearly been mitigated and the sentence should be lower,” said lawyer Francisco Oneto, while questioning Judge Lucía Pacheco of the Federal Court No. 2 in La Matanza, because she “did not give instructions on the minor crime contained therein, regardless of what the precedent of Álvarez de Lechea requires,” which “cancelled the verdict of the jury,” as he explained on social networks, when he expected to go against the sentence imposed on his client will appeal.
The incident occurred in the early hours of the morning December 25, 2024 about the 4100 Acevedo StreetCity Lomas del Mirador, La Matanza game.
According to the judicial reconstruction, Moreno He left his house armed to reprimand his neighborWHO celebrated Christmas with loud music.
After a short discussion it was… The defendant shot him in the stomach to Díaz, 40 years old, who fell to the ground, dejected. The Neighbors Who witnessed the scene? They called 911and shortly after they arrived Buenos Aires police officers.
The Recording des strokewhich later went viral on social networks, was crucial for researchers. You can see in the video Moreno is visibly upset and confronts his neighbor as screams can be heard. At one point the former agent says: “We will end badly” and seconds later he pulls this out Taurus revolver .38 caliber and shot.
Díaz was brought there as quickly as possible local hospitalWhere died a few hours later because of Severity of injury. It was Moreno, who made no attempt to escape held at the crime scene and the The murder weapon was confiscated along with various ammunition.
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