Christopher Víctor Romero was shot dead after a confrontation

• Christopher Víctor Romero is shot dead after a confrontation with another young man.
• Salvador Ricardo Blancas is already in custody and accused of having killed his rival in Tucson, Arizona.
• Christopher Víctor Romero was the father of a child and his family cries out for financial help.

Christopher Víctor Romero was shot to death in Arizona, after an argument with Salvador Ricardo Blancas. The Homicide Division of the Tucson Police Department (TPD) has already arrested Salvador Ricardo Blancas accused of shooting Christopher Víctor Romero to death.

Salvador Ricardo Blancas, 29, is already in prison in the Pima County, in Tucson, accused of the felony of murder in the second degree and waiting to face his criminal proceedings before a judge, according to the case documents consulted by MundoHispánico in the Arizona criminal records.

Christopher Víctor Romero was shot to death

What is not recorded in the investigation of the case against Salvador Ricardo Blancas is because he allegedly killed Christopher Víctor Romero, 29, since the motive for the verbal altercation that ended in a shooting is not recorded in the Division’s investigation. of Homicides of the TPD.

According to the investigation of the agents of the Homicide Division of the TPD the two men knew each other although it is not revealed if they had a friendship relationship. The shooting that killed Christopher Víctor Romero, a young family man, had several witnesses who gave the authorities the details of the incident.

The call that alerted the shooting

At 3:00 in the morning of last Wednesday, August 11, 2021, the TPD emergency number received a call that reported a shooting in front of 3600 East Speedway Boulevard in the northeast of the Tucson metropolitan area. The authorities’ report does not reveal who made the report about the shooting.

The exact location of the shooting is not known with certainty. On that block there is a car lot, a Japanese food restaurant, and office buildings. When the first TPD patrols arrived at the scene, they found a Hispanic man wounded by several gunshots on the floor of a parking lot and who they identified as Christopher Víctor Romero.

They try to save the life of Christopher Víctor Romero

To try to save Christopher Víctor Romero’s life, the first patrolmen who arrived at the scene applied all first aid services to the boy wounded by several bullets. It is not detailed where Romero was shot. However, the young man’s situation was very delicate due to his injuries.

The TPD patrols called for the urgent presence of paramedics from the Tucson Fire Department (TFD) to transfer Christopher Víctor Romero to the Banner University Medical Center where the doctors were already waiting to treat him.

Homicide Division takes investigation

However, shortly after arriving at the emergency room, the young Christopher Víctor Romero could no longer survive his injuries and died while the doctors kept him in surgery. When Romero was declared officially dead, the case was then turned over to detectives from the TPD Homicide Division.

The agents of the TPD Homicide Division discovered that, moments before the shooting, Christopher Víctor Romero had had a tough confrontation with another boy whom some witnesses identified as Salvador Ricardo Blancas. The latter had drawn a pistol and discharged it against his rival in front of several witnesses.

The alleged killer escapes from the crime scene

Salvador Ricardo Blancas, after unloading his weapon against Christopher Víctor Romero, escaped from the lot where the shooting took place without any of the witnesses being able or daring to stop him since he was still carrying the gun. The agents could not get any witnesses to tell them what the reason for the confrontation had been.

Based on the statements of the witnesses, the agents of the Homicide Division of the TPD issued last Thursday, August 12, 2021 an arrest warrant against Salvador Ricardo Blancas as allegedly responsible for the murder of his rival Christopher Víctor Romero.

Salvador Ricardo Blancas decides to surrender to the authorities

The story took a turn on the afternoon of the same Thursday, August 12, when Salvador Ricardo Blancas himself appeared at the headquarters of the Marana Police Department (MPD), also in Arizona, and told guard officers that they were looking for him in Tucson for the murder of Christopher Víctor Romero.

The town of Marana is a small town in the northeast of the Tucson metropolitan area on I-10 and heading to California. The surprised MPD agents at the confession of Salvador Ricardo Blancas called their TPD colleagues to find out if what he was saying was true.

The alleged murderer refuses to declare anything

When the agents of the TPD Homicide Division learned that the alleged murderer Salvador Ricardo Blancas had turned himself in in the town of Marana, they went for him to question him, detain him, and then take him to the Pima County jail in Tucson.

However, the case has become entangled because Salvador Ricardo Blancas despite having turned himself in for being the alleged murderer of Christopher Víctor Romero has decided to avail himself of his right not to declare anything before the authorities until he has a lawyer to represent him. Because of that, the motive for the crime is still a mystery.

«We are all devastated»

Eanondra Romero, it is not detailed what her family relationship is with the murdered boy, she opened the account Funeral for Christopher Victor Romero (Funeral for Christopher Víctor Romero) in the social network Go Fund Me to request financial help for the young man’s partner to pay his expenses since she has been left alone with their son.

“Our dear Christopher died recently on August 11th. He leaves behind his beloved son, his mother, a father and siblings. We are all devastated by his loss and we are not prepared for the high costs of a funeral service ”cries Eanondra Romero to ask for help from the community.

«Any amount will help our family a lot.»

Eanondra Romero details that they want to give Christopher Víctor Romero the funeral services «that he deserves … to honor his memory and say our last goodbye» so the family asks for «donations that can help us pay for Christopher’s funeral.»

“Any amount will go a long way to our family in this time of need. Thank you very much, ”Eanondra Romero concludes as she cries out for solidarity help from the community. Christopher Víctor Romero’s funeral services will be held on August 22, 2021 at the Funeraria del Ángel University in Tucson, Arizona.

One more victim for firearms

The shooting death of Christopher Víctor Romero is one more link in the violence with firearms. The non-profit organization National Archive of Gun Violence, which fights to raise awareness about the dangers of the free sale of firearms, reports that so far this year 27,671 people have died

As of Sunday, August 15, 2o21 of those people who have been shot dead in the United States, a total of 12,689 were murdered and 14,982 committed suicide. 25,498 were injured. The country has already experienced 432 mass shootings in the first half of the year, in which at least four people died in the same event.

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