Argentina: Police arrest suspect in killing of 11-year-old
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Police detained a man on suspicion of killing an 11-year-old boy and neighbors wrecked his home Monday amid anger over escalating drug violence in the Argentine city of Rosario, where a threat was directed at soccer superstar Lionel Messi last week.
Police detained a man on suspicion of killing an 11-year-old boy and neighbors wrecked his home Monday amid anger over escalating drug violence in the Argentine city of Rosario, where a threat was directed at soccer superstar Lionel Messi last week.
Maximo Jerez was killed early Sunday when at least one gunmen attacked a birthday party. Three other children, including a 2-year-old, were injured.
Hours after Maximo was buried Monday, people in the northern Rosario neighbourhood where the alleged shooter lived attacked his home.
Local news channels carried live images of people setting fires and throwing rocks at the home of the suspect, who at one point had a gun in his hand and appeared to fire it.
Police detained the man and then had to prevent people from attacking him. Once the suspect was taken away, neighbors destroyed his home and stole his belongings.
"We don't want another Maximo in the neighbourhood, we're so tired of everything, tired that they rob us and that our children die," Antonia Jerez, the boy's aunt, told local news media. "My nephew is no longer here, they killed him and the whole neighborhood is in mourning, angry."
People destroyed at least 3 houses in the area they claimed were used by drug dealers.
