Her name was Alicia, she was 52 years old and she died at the door of her house in Majadahonda (Madrid). Her husband is accused of shooting him in her bedroom in the early morning hours of February 14, 2021.
The man also shot and tried to strangle his daughter, according to the investigation. He faces 40 years in prison
“He killed me, he shot me… I’m dead.” They were Alicia’s last words before she died. Early morning of February 14, 2021, Valentine’s Day. Her daughter, on the street, squeezed her in her arms. Next to them, a neighbor who, alerted by what seemed like an argument, He went out to help when he saw the woman lying on the ground. In a nightgown, and with a gunshot wound, Alicia, 52 years old, of Portuguese origin, fought against death: “Hold on, mom. You’re not going to die.”
He died minutes later. He did it at the door of his house, on West Street in Majadahonda, a residential area of chalets. JAFD, her husband, a scrap metal dealer by profession, remained inside the house. He was locked up, as described, “semi-conscious” and, at times altered, the agents of the Citizen Security Unit (USECIC) of the Civil Guard had to remove him from there.
He is accused of four crimes: murder, attempted murder, threats and illegal possession of weapons, in the popular jury trial that has been taking place since November 6 in Section 27 of the Madrid Court. In the first phase, the first witnesses have already been heard. Also to him. The private prosecution, the Prosecutor’s Office, and the Community of Madrid consider it proven that on February 14, the scrap metal dealer shot and killed his wife, and tried it with his daughter. That, in previous weeks, he had threatened his wife with that same gun. The prosecutor asks for 40 years in prison for him.
A Civil Guard van enters the Provincial Court.
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Violence and terror
February 13, 2021. Alicia, who had eye surgery the day before, receives visits from all her children in the chalet. She has five, but with the marriage only two live. They all ate together, the afternoon progressed and the tension grew. “My father was nervous, very upset,” four of the couple’s five children declared in the first phase of the trial. As soon as we finished eating, the insults came.the threats: “this is going to come to an end, it ends here now.”
One more threat, everyone says. The words “fear”, “violence” and “terror” have been in the atmosphere at home for years. Alicia calmed them down.: “it’s not going to do anything to me since I’ve just had surgery.” At 6:30 p.m., they begin to leave the home. Everyone is leaving except A. (he prefers not to publish his name). He is a direct witness of the death of his mother and victim of what happened that fateful Valentine’s night.
A knife
A. testified behind closed doors in the second trial session. As CASO ABIERTO, Prensa Ibérica’s events and investigation portal, learned, his testimony was heartbreaking. He described the scene. He told how his father was looking to start an argument that his mother did not want. How he shot her mother and what the fight sequence was like in which she herself was involved.
As this media has learned, the agents of the Homicide Group of the Madrid Civil Guard They gathered on the day of the events that, alerted by the argument, A., their daughter, He broke the bolt on the bedroom door, tried to help his mother, and fought with his father.. Upon entering, she found them “on the bed struggling.” The young girl lunged at her father, who had one arm stretched out under her mother. He told her to get off of her, that he “was going to let her go.” It did not. She shot.
According to the Prosecutor’s Office, the accused shot his wife. Mother and daughter tried to grab the gun from him and the gun fell to the ground. Alicia, wounded, went to the kitchen to get a knife, while the accused “He tried to strangle his daughter with both hands, hit her head against the wall repeatedly, tore her left hand with a knife, and shot her in the left thigh with the same gun.“. Mother and daughter managed to escape, injuring the accused. They ran out of the house. Alicia would die in the street shortly after.
“If I had wanted to, I would have left her dry.”
Alicia died and A. went into shock. He, 62 years old, remained locked in the chalet. The young woman was treated at the hospital. The graphic document of her injuries, which OPEN CASE has accessed, leaves little doubt about the assault. Her father would be admitted out of danger, but in serious condition, also to the Puerta de Hierro Hospital in Madrid. He had two gunshot wounds and seven stab wounds. There was talk of self-inflicted wounds, of attempted suicide after killing his wife, he says no. Twenty days later he was discharged and entered provisional prison.
Accused of murder, he declared himself a victim. He claimed that “while in bed, he asked Alicia when she was going to get her son off drugs.” That he took a gun that he had taken out of the storage room, “I loqueé and I shot the wall to make him afraid“. He stated that between his daughter and his wife, they took the gun from him and that his wife “stood up and shot him” while he was lying down.
“If I had wanted to kill her, I would have left her dry.” The agents asked him about the shots that the two received. “Let them show me,” she simply said. JAFD declared last week in court. He only responded to questions from his lawyer. He denied the facts, again.
Attack on a 52-year-old woman in #Majadahonda with firearm. Deceased 62-year-old man in serious condition with several self-inflicted gunshot wounds. He#SUMMA112 He is transferred to the Puerta de Hierro hospital. Her daughter, about 22 years old, with an anxiety crisis. @Civil Guard investigate pic.twitter.com/hEGn7JEzRR
— 112 Community of Madrid (@112cmadrid) February 14, 2021
A life of violence
“Submitted.” Everyone assures that Alicia could not even be with her children, enjoy her grandchildren – she is 7 – with peace of mind. “Whore”, “slut”, “I’m going to kill you”. The relationship described by her children is marked by horror. So much so that, five years before, Alicia -now murdered- He went to his native Portugal with all of them after breaking up their relationship.. She returned “under threat,” they say before the judge and jury. “It’s a good thing you’re back because he had enough ammunition to kill you all,” they say he said.
“Every time we went to Portugal, the condition when we came was to stop in the mountains, tie my mother, beat her, and we would watch it from the car”
Fear, threats, terror. From everything heard in the courtroom, the testimony of one of his eldest daughters tears apart. “He was about 12 years old… after he had beaten my mother, he went to the van and grabbed the gun. He pointed it at my head. The gun went off, by accident, and hit him in the head. thigh to him.”
They grew up under constant threat and never reported it out of fear, they say. “Every time we went to Portugal on vacation, the condition when we came,” one of her daughters pauses, “It was to stop in the mountains, tie my mother up and beat her, and we would watch it from the car.“He breaks down crying during his statement.
They talk about unhealthy jealousy, obsession. “We couldn’t have any show of affection with my mother.” With the only child, a boy, it was worse. “He was a man.” Since his father alleged that the argument came over his consumption, the young man declared under oath: “I have never taken drugs. “Smoking, drinking coffee or watching television was a drug for him.”
Alicia was murdered early on Valentine’s Day 2021.
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“I was going to bed and I heard noises,” said a neighbor who tried to help Alicia before she died. “She was lying on the ground. I saw that she was our neighbor and I came out. At the request of the emergency servicesI covered his wound.” Alicia repeated that she was going to die, that he had shot her. “When the Civil Guard arrived they established a security perimeter.” He was still inside the house. “Drop the gun, we are going to enter.” . The agents have explained that, by telephone, they practiced negotiations to gain access. “The special unit came in and they took him out,” the neighbor reconstructs. “He gave me the feeling that he was unconscious, but I don’t know.”
JAFD assures that, for fear of being they will steal At home, he took the gun. “It is a quiet area,” concludes this neighbor when asked by the prosecutor. He bought it on the black market. It is the size of the palm of a hand and has the serial number erased. His children assure that he has always had it. They grew up seeing the gun in their hands. “He used it against us to scare us.”
The trial continues. Criminalistics, forensics, agents, experts and members of the Citizen Security Unit (USECIC) are testifying this week to explain the expert evidence against the scrap dealer. Awaiting the sentence, broken and speechless, session after session, their children go to the Provincial Court.