The Court of First Instance and Instruction number 2 of Loja has authorized this Wednesday the transfer of the bodies of the Huétor Tájar crime for burial, being the only procedure carried out by the judge in this regard. This has been indicated by sources consulted by Europa Press in the Superior Court of Justice of Andalusia once the autopsies were completed at the Institute of Legal Medicine of Granada.
According to sources close to the family, it is expected that this Wednesday afternoon the mortal remains of the 72-year-old grandfather will be transferred to the Loja cemetery for cremation and burial. On the other hand, the funeral of the two children, aged 10 and 12, is pending the evolution of the father’s health, who had to be transferred to a hospital where he was sedated and remains under observation.
Likewise, the sources have stated that, after the analysis of the bodies, other samples have been sent to the National Institute of Toxicology to complete this work. The transfer of the bodies for burial is the only procedure that the judge must carry out in this regard. All of this within the framework of a judicial investigation that is declared secret for a period of one month.
The old man was barricaded for almost twelve hours with the children in his home in Huétor Tájar armed with a shotgun for which he had a hunting license. Several neighbors alerted 112, around 9:45 p.m. on Sunday, that there were moments of tension in the home between the grandfather and the children’s father, who was shot at gunpoint and ended up leaving the home, leaving the children there. children.
After hours of negotiations, and seeing that the little ones were not leaving to go to school, the Civil Guard broke into the home around 8:25 a.m. on Monday after verifying that there were no movements in the house.
At that same moment, according to the Government delegate in Andalusia, Pedro Fernández, the old man took his own life and the agents found the bodies of the children in two different rooms, one of them with a gunshot wound. The investigation indicates, pending an autopsy, that the other died of asphyxiation, according to sources from the Armed Institute.
The Huétor Tájar City Council asked this past Tuesday in a brief statement that the privacy of the family of the deceased be respected in the face of the “massive deployment” of the media and begged for respect to “not generate more pain in this situation.” Likewise, the council has made psychological assistance available to the father, who is in his 50s.
