The Corrientes justice has handed down an exemplary sentence against members of a family accused of perpetrating one of the capital’s bloodiest episodes of urban violence in recent times.
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The court of first instance convicted 30 years in prison To Alejandro Honorio Alarconaka “Bear”; to his son, Jonathan Alejandro Alarconalready Veronica Elizabeth Gonzálezfor the double murder in the Santa Teresita neighborhood.
It turned out that the three were major contributors to the crime Simple murder, repeated in two casesto the detriment of Lucas Adrian Romero And Mauricio Nahuel Rodriguez. The verdict also included minor injury charges against two other people who were injured in the attack.
A shooting caught on surveillance cameras
The event that triggered the case occurred in the early hours of Sunday, January 21, 2024, at the intersection of Madariaga, between Castelli and Juan José Paso. According to the evidence presented in the debate, the group got out of a car and opened fire indiscriminately on a group of people.
The attack caused the instant death of Lucas “Hamster” Romero (29). On his part Mauricio Nahuel Rodriguez (20) He was transferred to the teaching hospital in critical condition, where he died a month later after suffering from serious gunshot wounds. The attackers remained at large for three months until they surrendered to authorities.
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Justice and absolution for doubts
The court, made up of doctors Ana del Carmen Figueredo, Darío Ortiz and María Mercedes Leconte, decided to uphold it Preventive detention One of the three was sentenced in a prison unit and flatly rejected the defense’s request for access to house arrest.
Meanwhile, the fourth defendant in the case, Matías Ramón Ezequiel AlarconHe was declared innocent. The judges were of the opinion that a Insufficiency of evidence to associate him directly with the execution of the shots and to grant him freedom. Since this young man was a minor at the time of the crime, the judge for families, children and young people, Carolina Macarrein, also attended the court.
The full facts of the verdict, which closes a case that has kept the southern part of the city in suspense because of the threat posed by the so-called “Alarcón clan,” will be announced next February 6, 2026.
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