Ismael turned 18 on August 24. In fact, he came of age last Wednesday morning, when he saw before him how Pedro GM, his neighbor, had stabbed to death his mother, Eulalia Ayline MS (who called herself … on a social network as “a lawyer at the Complutense of Madrid”), without being able to do anything except call the police. “I feel helpless,” he told ABC. It was a quarter to one and I was watching a movie on the tablet when I started hearing screams and a lot of banging. At first I thought it was something from the movie. But no. My mother was about to come home from work, I got scared and went down to the floor below mine, 1ºF. And tragedy struck. The main hypothesis is that due to mental disorders, Pedro ran away from home for a while and his mother went looking for him. It was when she brought him back to the family nest that the worst possible tragedy was unleashed.
At number 267 Bravo Murillo Street, in the heart of the Tetuán neighborhood, the comings and goings of people in the building are generally constant. There were tourist apartments in some cases; Today, in addition to hardworking and honest neighbors, in some homes there are prostituted women and there is talk of drug trafficking. Some doors, once opened, emit an almost sedative smell of marijuana. Ismael therefore also thought that it could be a “movement” that he had to undergo on several occasions: “But no, I saw how the woman left the apartment, bloodied, with her entire back red from the stab wounds, to flee; then the son grabbed her forcefully and put her back on the ground.
Pedro was cruel to Eulalia until he stabbed her nearly 60 times with a knife he had taken from the kitchen. Forty-five of them, on the back, and the rest, on the neck, plus others for defense. The fight had started shortly before, as soon as she arrived at the door, where he shouted at her. The mother and son, she, a 49-year-old Bolivian and he, a 22-year-old Spaniard, entered the block and barely climbed a staircase to 1ºF, when, because of the screams, the son turned into blows and slammed the door of the family home. The attack continued, the victim’s calls for help continued, Ismael quickly went up to his house, told his father and they called the national police. “In 30 seconds, they were there,” explains another neighbor of the family involved in the crime door-to-door. The young witness was worried that his mother would find the butcher shop on her way home from work, but she was lucky enough to decide to take the elevator. His son told him the news and he couldn’t get over his shock.
The first officers knocked on the door, but Pedro refused to open it until they made him yield. As soon as they seized him, they knocked him down and chained him. He kept shouting, “I didn’t mean to do it, I didn’t mean to do it!” The blood trail was enormous. At the same time, the police carried out the first resuscitation maneuvers on the victim, who still had a thread of life left. They covered his wounds as best they could, but there were dozens of them. Emergency services from Samur-Protection Civile quickly arrived and continued to provide assistance for several minutes, but the injuries were inevitably fatal and Eulalia ended up dying on the spot.
The son was transferred to the cells of the Tetuán district police station, located a few meters from the crime scene. Around 1:30 p.m., Pedro’s father-in-law and the deceased’s companion arrived at the apartment and noticed the tragedy: “The boy has an intellectual disability of 30%, he is undergoing treatment”, he declared to the agents of the Homicide Group V, who took charge of the investigation. The Violent Crimes Group (DEVI) of the Provincial Scientific Police Brigade carried out a visual inspection and collected numerous remains. The main witnesses went to the police station at dawn to explain what they knew about the event. Some pointed out that he had just spent a stay in a specialized center.
“He has a 30% handicap”
A key aspect of this case is whether the young man’s mental illness, believed to be schizophrenia, was sufficient to trigger the crime or was aggravated by substance use, which typically results in dual pathology. Extreme health care and strict adherence to medication schedule are essential so that these patients do not develop psychotic breaks.
The neighbors barely knew the family: “They had only lived here for a month and a half or two,” several of them repeated. What was common was seeing the suspect walking his two small dogs in the area. “They also had a cat and one time it ran away across the block; I found him and I brought him home,” Ismael remembers. Who was going to tell him that this boy, “who looked older than his 22 years,” would end his mother’s life in front of him.
“I didn’t mean to do it!” “I didn’t mean to do it!” » Pedro repeated to the police who quickly came to arrest him.
Pedro dreamed of being a “youtuber” and showed on his social networks the good relationships he had with his stepfather and, above all, with his mother: vacations in Mallorca, trips to Paris and many hugs and kisses, promises of eternal love. Even New Year’s greetings, which Eulalia won’t be able to repeat this next Christmas. Sixty stab wounds cut short any dream in this family.
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