April 13, 2026 – 09:19
An 80-year-old grandfather was shot to death this morning in an alleged home assault in Ypané. The National Police (PN) believes that the target was his grandson or even that he may have been involved in the fatal shooting.
He homicide occurred at approximately 00:50 during a assault occurred in a house located on an unnamed street in the Virgen de Fátima neighborhood, city of Ypané Central department.
The victim was Alfonso Méndez Piñánez, 80 years oldowner of the attacked house, who lived there with his grandson Carlos Manuel Genes Méndez, 23 years oldhis wife and their little son.
According to the data, Don Alfonso apparently He was caught in the middle of a shootout.
Ypané police investigate circumstances of the assault
His grandson said that four to five assailants allegedly entered, but the Police have doubts about his version, since the shooting supposedly occurred just when The young man left the house in the middle of the morning.
In fact, given that suspicion, the Police took a show of hands to the grandson of the deceasedThat is, they gave him the test commonly known as paraffin, to find out if he also fired a firearm.
The neighbors would have told the intervening police officers that the grandson of the deceased, although he formally works as a barber, would be or would have been a drug dealerso another theory suggests that it was actually an attack directed against him and that his grandfather was a collateral victim.
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In the case report, the theft of some money and cell phones was recorded. The incident occurred within the jurisdiction of the 23rd Central Police Station of Ypané.
