Not a single resident of those who were prowling the streets of the small municipality of Sant Hipòlit de Voltregà since early yesterday yesterday had good words for the 40-year-old man arrested on Monday for allegedly killing a 15-year-old boy with two shots, also from town. "He could see it coming. He was very violent and he was getting worse. When he wasn't drunk, he was drugged and he faced everyone. What a pity. Luckily his mother was no longer in this world because she suffered with her husband and now she would suffer with the son." The phrase of a woman, who like the rest of the town, remained dismayed by the crime. The fatal victim was also the son of Sant Hipòlit, and he had settled in his grandparents' house, after his parents recently moved to Roda de Ter.
At half past nine in the morning, the judicial and police delegation that was taking the accused to his home, at number 14, arrived at the small steep street of Sant Martí to participate in the search. The man refused to cooperate with the investigators, who were focused this Tuesday on locating the murder weapon. He did not open his mouth, just as he did not open it on Monday afternoon in the booth of the Mossos de Vic police station.
The detainee was assisted by a public defender. Faced with his refusal to cooperate, the police returned the man to the police vehicle in which he had arrived and continued with the inspection of the house for two hours. Before, they handed over the dog that lived with the suspect to a relative who came to take care of the animal.
The Mossos cut off the access to the street and even one of the tapes was approached by one of the victim's uncles, Emili López, who managed to calm down his son, Roger, cousin of the murdered young man and dismayed by the events. "We don't know what could have happened before the shots were fired. But my nephew was with the rest of the townspeople celebrating the hockey victory and no matter how strong the fight they had afterward was, it is not understandable that he fired two shots at him in the head", he commented with pain at the doors of the murderer's house. "All of Sant Hipòlit had at some point had an incident with the guy, but from that to shooting. We can't believe it."
The homicide group of the Central Police Region continued this Tuesday with the interrogation of witnesses in order to find the trigger for the confrontation that caused the shots. The victim's mother shared a photograph of her son with a heartbreaking declaration of love on her Facebook account.
At seven in the evening the residents will gather in front of the town hall to honor the victim with two minutes of silence and to repudiate a crime that has shocked the small town of Osona.
