Triple death from monoxide: the owners of the property were charged with manslaughter | Cuyo’s diary

2023-09-19 18:24:27

This Tuesday, José Oscar Muñoz (66) and his wife Teresa Scalise (63) were in front of Judge Alberto Caballero for the death of three people in a property they owned and which was for rent. In this sense, the lawyer granted prosecutor Grassi and the defense headed by Andrés Bertagna 5 months of Preparatory Criminal Investigation (IPP) and at the same time imposed coercive measures on the accused.

The couple who owned the apartment where a 17-year-old minor and two other friends, “Sasha” (Leonardo Alfredo Dubois, 18 years old) and “Yeni” (Sebastián Narváez, 21 years old) were found dead, were charged with the crime of manslaughter. aggravated by the number of people.

The expertise that determined the prosecutor’s request

In the apartment, there were at least three appliances that ran on gas (a stove, a heater and a water heater) without any security measures required to inhabit that studio apartment (it seemed to have been a garage) because there were no ventilation grilles for the apartment. exchange of oxygen with the outside and because the devices did not have escape routes to evacuate the remains of combustion, judicial sources indicated.

Apparently, the defendants are not only complicated by the expertise of Ecogas, they are also compromised by a municipal report on the fact that the premises were not authorized to be used as accommodation for people, the sources stated.

The fact

Everything became known when the mother of the youngest of the victims, a 17-year-old girl, insisted that the owner of the house open the door because she had been told he was in that place, but she got tired of knocking and no one answered. When they opened, they found the girl, but dead, like two other friends, “Sasha” (Leonardo Alfredo Dubois, 18 years old) and “Yeni” (Sebastián Narváez, 21 years old). They had only been renting in the place for a week, they indicated.

The fatalities could have been four, but the remaining young woman had decided to leave for personal reasons on Friday around 8. She then declared that she left “with a headache” and for the investigations this is one more sign that oxygenation was not the optimal in the department.

The main hypothesis is that they could have turned on the stove to heat water in a kettle, which they found almost melted but with the burner off. The heater and the heater, however, were still on and everything seems to indicate that these devices consumed the oxygen in the environment and released remains of combustion that poisoned the three young women, who had spent at least 18 hours “locked in”, counted from the time of The last time the cameras revealed that one of them left and came back in, mid-morning on Friday. The autopsy revealed that they died from carbon monoxide and had been dead for at least 8 hours.