Despite his defenders seeking house arrest, the Public Prosecutor’s Office ordered preventive detention for one year.
The accused and the weapon used to shoot. Photo: Jalisco Public Prosecutor’s Office.
Jaime G., a senior citizen accused of shooting at a group of children playing outside his house and killing a three year old girl, will remain in preventive custody until his legal situation is resolved.
Arrested on June 3 for the girl’s murder, Jaime G. is also accused of attacking the deceased minor’s father with a firearm, when the father attacked him after his daughter was shot. The home is located on Lauro Caloca street at the intersection with Francisco Dávalos Flores, in Tizapán El Alto on Chapala’s south shore.
The father was wounded in the back of the head and right shoulder after lunging at Jaime G., who was himself injured in the chest. Jaime G. then took refuge in his home, where he was captured by police and a 9mm handgun was recovered.
The house arrest proposed by the defendant’s counsel was opposed by the Public Prosecutor’s Office because of the danger that Jaime G. represents to the victim’s father as well as to the neighborhood’s inhabitants. Instead, the judge ordered him to stand trial for the aggravated murder of the child as well as the attempted homicide of the victim’s father, and the judge ordered that Jaime G. remain in preventive detention in a penitentiary for one year.
Translated by MaryAnne Marble
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