They arrested a suspect for the murder of the father of a journalist in Mar del Plata

in the last hours A 27-year-old man was arrested in Mar del Plataaccused of the murder of the father of a journalist that occurred last Friday night in the seaside resort after he came out to defend his son during an entrance.

According to information from police sources, the subject, identified as Nicholas FernandezHe was arrested for another act after the crime and shortly after was identified as the alleged attacker of Daniel Marcel, the 78-year-old father of the Mar del Plata chronicler Marcelo Marcel.

They killed the father of a journalist: he was trying to help his son while he was robbed

Sources of the investigation revealed to telam which was recognized based on security camera analysis located in the area of ​​the homicide, in the Las Lilas neighborhood, after he was apprehended on Friday around 11 p.m. after the neighbors reported that he was shooting shots in the air on San Lorenzo street at 6800.

At the time of Fernández’s arrest, police officers kidnapped a 9 mm pistol and sheaths servedreason why the young man was accused of “gun abuse”.

However, the testimonial statements taken on Saturday together with the analysis of the security cameras, both private and of the municipal urban monitoring system, made it possible to establish that the detainee could be the author of the homicide from marcel.

Consequently, the prosecutor Romina Díaz, head of the Functional Instruction Unit 6, asked the Guarantees justice that Fernández also be arrested for homicidereason for which he now remains in Penal Unit 44 of Batán and could be investigated in the courts of Mar del Plata during the next few hours.

Marcel’s murder occurred last Friday around 8:00 p.m. in the house located on the Gabito Bannat y Alvarado passage, southwest of the resort town, when the man’s son entered the home with his vehicle and was rebuked by two criminals.

The investigation specified that at least one of the attackers was armed and trigger against the victim, but the shot did not go off. Immediately afterwards, before the screams of his son, Marcel left the house and tried to defend him, at which time received a shot that allegedly entered the clavicle and left him lying on the ground.

After stealing a backpack, he killed a policeman with a shot to the head

Subsequently, the attackers escaped in different directions while the victim was transferred to the Interzonal General Acute Hospitalplace where he died as a result of the wounds caused by the bullet received.

In the framework of the investigation of the crime, the authorities analyzed dozens of images from security cameras in order to identify and locate the criminals. In this work, personnel from the 12th police station and of the Departmental Investigation Delegation (DDI) from Mar del Plata.

AS./fl