The 5-year-old girl who was wounded by a stray bullet died at Christmas

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Maite Almirón (5) was hit by a stray bullet while celebrating Christmas with her family in the Buenos Aires town of Parque San Martín, Merlo's party, police sources said. The projectile hit him in the head and the girl was in a bad state.

This morning confirmed the worst final, Maite died. The minor was admitted to the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (UTIP) of the Eva Perón Hospital, in an irreversible situation. The doctors had decreed brain death.

Because of the fact there is a detainee. He is a 41-year-old delinquent debtor who had two firearms in his house. Walter Ariel Deheza (41) was arrested last night as the main suspect of being the one who fired the stray bullet that wounded and killed a 5-year-old girl.

eheza is the boyfriend of a woman who lives in the same block as the family of Maite Almirón.

The detention of Deheza was specified based on a series of testimonies obtained by the prosecutor of Morón, Mario Ferrario, from the neighbors of the street parallel to Larsen in 400, where the family of Maite lives. These witnesses pointed to the collector as the possible author of the shot that killed the child. Neighbors say he fired shots into the air minutes after midnight Christmas.

Deheza was arrested by the officers of the 3rd police station. of Merlo in a search conducted at his home on Argentina Avenue, also in San Martin Park. There, the investigators kidnapped a pistol caliber Bersa 9 millimeters that, although it is necessary to wait for the skills that confirm it, could be the weapon from where it left the shot that killed the minor.

In addition, the investigations found a 12/70 caliber shotgun tactical technology, and in another part of the house a bottle with 17 grams of marijuana that is estimated for personal consumption.

Walter Ariel Deheza (41), the main suspects.
The planned thing was that the body of the minor was transferred to the Judicial Morgue of Lomas de Zamora to perform an autopsy and remove the remains of the projectile that killed her, which was lodged in her abdomen. These elements will be key to the investigation.