Rafael Morenothe 75-year-old retired federal police officer who shot his neighbor in the stomach, Sergio David Diaza 40-year-old bus driver because he did not want to lower the volume of the music in the city of Lomas del Mirador, Buenos Aires, on December 25, 2024, He was sentenced to eight years and six months in prison.
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This is what the members of a popular jury explained criminally responsible for the crimes of simple murder and illegal carrying of weaponsas he had already informed him Argentine News Agency the defender Francisco Oneto. In addition, there is the Oral Criminal Court (TOC) No. 2 of La Matanza, composed of the judge Lucila Pachecodecided to deprive him of possession of weapons for a period of 10 years and He rejected the perpetrator’s lawyers’ request for house arrest.
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The prosecutor Sergio Antin had the conviction of the retired police officer for “Homicide aggravated by the use of a firearm“.
Cristina, the victim’s mother, spoke with us N/Aremarked: “expected a prison sentence of 13 years“, and said: “I ask that the sentence imposed be final and fulfilled.” I ask the judiciary to comply with this request. I need justice. I ask God for the strength to carry on. “That person killed me too.”
For her part, Karina, the victim’s cousin, assured: “I think he went out to kill on a festive night, the shot didn’t escape him and never showed any regrets. Let him pay the fine in prison, that’s not what we wanted, but let him pay accordingly. Nothing and no one will give us Sergio back.”

How the confrontation between Rafael Moreno and Sergio David Díaz came about
Díaz was on the sidewalk of his home with his family and a group of friends, listening to music and drinking alcohol, when Moreno approached him and asked him to lower the volume of his audio devices. When he received a refusal from the bus driver, the retired police officer responded by pulling out his gun and showing it to intimidate his neighbor, who then reprimanded him: “Are you a Piola? Don’t take the iron out of me! Who do you think you are?”
The former police officer pulled the trigger on his gun, shooting Díaz in the stomach and causing his death.. The day after the events, when Moreno was already imprisoned, his wife told the press at the door of their house: “My husband came with the luggage after what happened, i.eHe shot because he had no choice, he was unwilling to killWhen asked about the moment of the shooting, the woman said she didn’t remember anything: “I didn’t hear any music. I didn’t see him come out with the gun, even though I knew he had it.” He had no conflicts with the neighborhood, quite the opposite.“.
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Relatives of the murdered man also spoke to the media. At that moment, Karina, the victim’s cousin, explained: “There were seven people, all adults, and me, the owner of the house. We want justice, He came straight with the gun at his hip. And we are afraid that they will give him the freedom to be a police officer and that he will come back here. “We are defenseless.”
And then he said that The shooter’s wife “saw the scene and said the bus driver deserved it.”. As if nothing had happened, he fired the shot, stared, turned around and went home. I find myself destroyed, We want justice to be served and not to go unpunished“.
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