Carmen de Patagones case

In Carmen de Patagones, a city in the south of Buenos Aires, a teenage student shot with a handgun to his companions, killing 4 students and wounding 5 students. Two girls and one boy were killed instantly and one out of the five student wounded, died in the hospital. All the victims were about 14 and 16 years old. Four of the wounded were treated immediately on the scene and a fifth student was hospitalized in serious condition, and then died.

The 15-year-old student entered the room without saying a word and began firing a 9-millimeter handgun, aiming first at the walls as students cowered under their desks.

This occurred around 7:30 am when the shooting start, they were students in the classroom but it was before the teacher had shown up. Students who were outside the classroom at the time told local television they thought they heard firecrackers going off, then saw bloodied students screaming as they fled the classroom.

Some students could hear the gunfire and the people screaming, also some students said that they saw three bodies on the floor with bullets wounds.

This episode impacted all the country and touched off a debate on national television about rising violence in public schools in Argentina. But this recent act of school violence has also come on the heels of a crime wave in Argentina marked by ransom kidnappings, street shootings and carjackings.


By: Lukas Han Palacios


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