It was the early hours of Saturday in La Unión, Chile, when a car plowed through people outside the Euforia nightclub.
Edmara Molina Rogel, 24, and Kesia Burgos Tejeda, 34 and the mother of two children, died at the scene. Six more people were injured.
The driver did not stop.
Hours later, police arrived at the home of Matías Villegas Carrasco, 25, goalkeeper for a football club in Osorno, because the vehicle was registered in his father’s name.
The man asked his son what had happened to the car. Villegas replied that “they had crashed into him” and went back to sleep, without giving any further explanation.
It was his own father who turned him over to the police. The breathalyzer registered 1,59 grams of alcohol per liter of blood despite the six hours that had passed, and tests detected antidepressants in his system.
Prosecutor Leyla Chahín charged him with two counts of simple homicide, six injuries, and leaving the scene without helping the victims.
The court ordered pretrial detention, and he is currently being held in Valdivia prison.
Did the father do the right thing by turning him in, or should the family have protected him even though he had committed the crime?