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Teen Dies After Month in Coma; Relatives Hold Scandalous Funeral in La Plata

A 15-year-old boy, Tiziano Videla, died from gunshot wounds sustained in September. In response, his relatives held an unconventional funeral, burning his motorcycle on his grave and organizing a noisy procession. The investigation into the case continues, initially the incident was classified as an attempted murder.


Teen Dies After Month in Coma; Relatives Hold Scandalous Funeral in La Plata

The judicial situation of the accused, another 18-year-old young man, has worsened. The people close to Videla organized a 'caravan at full speed' to the teenager's grave, where 'they set fire to the motorcycle the teenager was riding when he was shot on September 22'. The deceased's motorcycle, which he was riding at the time of the shooting, became the target of the anger of his people. A 15-year-old teenager, identified as Tiziano Benjamin Videla, died after more than a month of hospitalization following two gunshot wounds at the end of September, and his people starred in a particular 'tumbero funeral' at the La Plata Cemetery, where they burned the young man's motorcycle on his tombstone. Funerals of this type, which expose a 'symbolism of urban marginalization', are increasingly replicated on social media, but the one that took place showed 'distinctive features' as no shots were recorded. After two weeks, he was transferred to the San Juan de Dios Hospital, but his condition worsened and finally 'Videla died' on Monday, November 3. In the meantime, the La Plata Functional Instruction Unit (UFI) 2 intervened and ordered raids. The vehicle, engulfed in flames, was 'burning on the same tombstone of the deceased' while being subjected to 'kicks, blows and insults'. According to judicial records, the deceased had 'several open cases in different prosecutor's offices in La Plata for robbery, concealment and possession of firearms'. Prosecutor Betina Lacki, in charge of the investigation, is trying to reconstruct the attack through 'security camera images and neighbor testimonies'. The caravan was made up of 'a long string of vehicles, cars and motorcycles, entering the La Plata Municipal Cemetery', where its participants 'wielding flower wreaths, honking, doing wheelies with the motorcycles (which in urban slang is known as 'tirar corte'), making noise'. Images of the funeral were set to 'a song by the cumbia group La Repandilla' and posted on social networks. In one of the reels it read: 'You will be missed, black. His father admitted to the authorities that his son 'had been involved in the incident'. In the criminal environment, this type of action with the deceased's vehicle 'obeys (...) that such a vehicle did not allow those traveling in it to escape death or capture, for example'. The timeline of the attack and the progress of the case Tiziano Benjamin Videla was shot on Monday, September 22, around 11:30 p.m., at the corner of 45 and 141, in the San Carlos neighborhood of La Plata. One of the shots hit J.S.R., an 18-year-old young man. Neighbors heard several gunshots and Patrol Command agents found him 'on one of the sidewalks, with two bullet wounds: one in the back, another in the right buttock'. In the home, several weapons were seized, including a Bersa Thunder .380 Plus caliber and a Taurus G3 9mm caliber, all with their respective magazines and ammunition. The case, which was originally filed as 'grievous bodily injury and abuse of a firearm', will be reconfigured as 'homicide' following the teenager's death, and an eventual settling of scores is now being investigated. Bola (sic) bien alto'. He was found next to him 'a .32 caliber revolver, a 9mm spent casing and an empty magazine', which raised suspicion of an armed confrontation from the start. Videla was urgently transferred to the Alejandro Korn Hospital, where he was diagnosed with 'a serious spinal cord injury, at the T2 vertebra level', which would cause paraplegia. Forever in our hearts.