Last Wednesday afternoon, in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Avoid City, a 12-year-old boy was shot at on his way home from school. As the researchers reconstructed, he was approached by at least two young men who ended up shooting him in the face and fleeing the scene.
The attacked child is called Joaquin, is 12 years old and although he is out of danger, admitted to the Italian Hospital, he lost a lot of blood due to an injury to his right cheekbone. This Thursday, Nataliehis mother, gave a strong testimony in Telenoche (El Trece), the news program hosted by Luciana Geuna Y Diego Leuko.
“It was terrible, terrible…”, Natalia summed up when talking about the moment she met her bloodied son. And her crude story caused Geuna to break live when she tried to respond to the mother of the shot child.
“Natalia, good evening, thank you very much for talking to us, it is very difficult for everyone”, The presenter started by saying. “You have a… It costs me a lot, sorry”, he said next, but had to be interrupted because his voice broke and he could not hold back the tears.
“It is very difficult to listen to you, Natalia, it is very difficult what happened because of a lot of things”, added Leuco and picked up the glove of his partner, who was still drying her tears. Later, he called the boy’s mother to ask how Joaquín is currently. “You talk about the call that Joaquín makes to you when he was being assisted. Could you talk to him? How is he? ”, Asked the son of Alfredo Leuco.
“He’s fine. Talk, now I was watching TV, look at his cell phone, talk to his classmates… But last night I was with him all night, I told him to sleep, to rest. Because all the time he brings up the subject: ‘Did you see my shirt?’, ‘I messed up’… I was very scared. And that’s what breaks me. It breaks me that there are people who can so easily truncate the life of a child. because he is a boy”, Closed Natalia very shocked by the fact and also with a broken voice.
Police sources consulted by Infobae They specified that the event occurred at the intersection of Eva Perón and Maracaná avenues, around 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday. Police personnel went there, notified by a phone call alerting about an injured minor.
Due to the delay in the arrival of an ambulance, the victim was transferred to the Ballestrini Hospital in a private vehicle. She entered the health center conscious and rigorous tests were carried out, through which the doctors on duty confirmed that she was out of danger despite a gunshot wound to the right cheekbone.
Mariana Soledad Ríos, a witness to the attack, stated that the minor I was walking along the sidewalk when two young people – between 18 and 20 years old – who were traveling in the same direction, they approached him from behind and shot him. Then, according to the woman’s testimony, the suspects fled without stealing any of the boy’s belongings. For this reason, the researchers are not clear about the motive for the attack.
Jesica, an employee of a chicken shop near the scene, spoke today with TN and said that she was one of the first people to assist the victim. “I saw him, I ran out and I was with him”, he confirmed to the news channel. Later, she provided details of the moment in which he heard the shot that hit the minor’s face. “I heard the shot. I was at the bottom. I look out, I don’t see anyone through one door, but when I peek out the other I do see him coming out of the supermarket. My friend who was here told me that she heard a cry for ‘help’. I went out and I see how his eye is bleeding, he leans against a wall and begins to spurt blood from his mouth”, recounted the young merchant through tears.
Noticing the seriousness of the wound, Jesica used an apron that she had with her to cover the bullet hole and stop the boy’s bleeding. “He was talking to his mom and he said ‘mom, they shot me, I’m in the Chinese.’ I helped him sit down and told him ‘stay and talk to me, nothing more’, the woman recalled, visibly affected by what had happened.
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