A terrible crime has shocked Argentine society and provoked the strongest condemnation from the government President Javier Milei. Umma Aguileraa 9-year-old girl, was murdered by a gunshot wound to the back of the head. Gang of thieves that they stopped the car in which the minor's family was traveling as soon as they left their house. The criminals shot at the vehicle of the father, a police officer who is part of the Security Minister's security team. Patricia Bullrich.
The incident occurred when the family was leaving their home City of Villa Centenario in Buenos Aires. At that moment, four armed criminals aboard a black Toyota Corolla intercepted the vehicle Ford Ka in which the girl's family was traveling. Umma was sitting in the right back seat of the car during the shooting was shot in the head. She was rushed to Churruca Hospital, where she died a few minutes later.
In the last few hours, the Buenos Aires provincial police have arrested one of the alleged perpetrators of the crime and searched several houses to arrest the rest of the gang. Hours later, police officers found the abandoned vehicle in which the criminals were traveling Villa Fiorito, about two kilometers from the scene of the accident.
When the police arrived at the scene, they questioned the minor's mother, also a member of the federal police, who claimed to have witnessed the event as she was closing the garage door when the robbery took place. Authorities are examining surveillance camera footage that shows how When the shots were fired, the father accelerated with the intention of fleeing.
President Milei's response was immediate: “Umma was nine years old and was cowardly murdered. I offer my most sincere condolences to her parents. Maria Eugenia and Eduardo, both members of our federal police. You have my support and that of the entire national government. Criminals believe that they continue to live in Argentina's impunity, but they are wrong. We will find them and make them pay for the lives they took and the family they destroyed,” the president wrote on the social network X.
Shortly before, Minister Bullrich had posted on the same network: “They murdered Umma. These criminals have no forgiveness. We will search for them until we find them. “We are with his parents, María Eugenia and Eduardo, in this terrible moment and deep pain.”