They investigate the violent death of two women and a man in Valladolid

Three corpses, two of them with signs of violence, and two scenes. All this in the neighborhood of La Rondilla (Valladolid). The National Police has been investigating since this Saturday the violent death of two women, mother and daughter, and that of a man, who were found dead in two buildings close to each other (just 200 meters away) in which two fires were also declared in a short interval of time.

The first call received by the emergency service occurred at 4:25 p.m., when a fire was reported at number 2 on Calle Marqués de Santillana. Once the flames were extinguished, firefighters and agents found the body of Juan Carlos Palomino Casado, 72 years old and with signs presumably of violent death.

Five minutes later, another call came in to the emergency services. A woman, María del Carmen González (78 years old), insisted that she did not know what was happening to her daughter, Eva María Asensio, who was in her home. Minutes later, in Eva María’s house, on Calle Linares, 32, the firefighters had to extinguish another fire in which the two women were found dead and in which one of them showed signs of violence.

After finding the three lifeless bodies, agents of the National Police and officials of the Institute of Legal Medicine divided between the two scenarios to look for possible connections between the two events. Calm, surprisingly, took over the two streets in La Rondilla. Along those roads, the neighbors did not know what had happened, despite the fact that, in the early afternoon, the corpses had not been removed.

That was the situation in Linares, 32. Many of the block’s tenants were unaware of what had happened minutes before. “We have seen the commotion later, but until then,” each neighbor of number 32 wielded. Only the highest floors realized what happened as they were closer to Eva María’s home (5º B). “We have had to provide buckets of water, but we don’t know any more. It seems that the fire came from inside one of the rooms, “emphasized another of the owners about Eva María’s apartment, who lived alone in that house “for about thirty years.”

«We still do not believe what has happened. Eva María’s mother brought her food every day because they live very close”, completed a neighbor of the first, who, like many, found out what happened when he saw the two stretchers covered with white sheets leaving and in which they were the remains of María del Carmen and Eva María.

After more than two hours of photographing every corner of the house, the agents left Calle Linares to head for Calle Marqués de Santillana. At that point, the trace of the fire was more visible. Open windows, burnt shutters and the smell of burning from the beginning of the street.

“A seen and not seen”

The fire surprised the 32 houses at number 2 on Calle Marqués de Santillana after 4:00 p.m. A neighbor who was passing by on the street saw smoke coming out of the windows and the terrace on the first floor. “We live on the 4th floor – explains José, former president of the community of owners – but on the 2nd floor you could no longer breathe. That is why they have ordered us older people to lock ourselves up at home ». It was a seen and not seen. In a few minutes, the firefighters had extinguished the smoke that only affected the house and in which they also found the body of Juan Carlos Palomino Casado.

All the residents of number 2 of Marqués de Santillana had their particular vital ‘card’ of this man. He lived in the family apartment on the first floor where he had grown up with his four brothers. After the death of his parents (his mother’s name is still on the mailbox) he kept the house. Former retired ambulance driver, everyone remembers him as “a good man, correct and kind… until he got into the ‘dealing'”. Mary, a neighbor door to door in the first, summarizes the general robot portrait. “Sooner or later I would have to prepare another one of these,” endorsed the group of residents who came to see the charred exterior.

Although Carlos, as everyone knew him, lived alone, the neighbors report a constant flow of people knocking on his door. Apparently his last stable partner had passed away some time ago. “Sometimes they made a mistake and called mine and I had to send them there,” recalls Mary, at times visibly affected.

Two years ago, the deceased already starred in another fire incident. “He already prepared it one winter day when a frying pan was left in the kitchen and they had to evict us all,” a couple of second-floor neighbors shout from the terrace. The family’s connection to Calle Marqués de Santillana includes the bakery that was just below the house. It was the Bread Boutique, which was run by his brother Miguel for a few years.