2023-10-01 02:37:15
Mexican authorities confirmed the death of six of the seven young people kidnapped last Sunday in the state of Zacatecas, one of the states hardest hit by drug trafficking violence. “The prosecutor’s office went to the scene (…) carried out the expert reports, forensic work, and last night the relatives were already able to identify the young people,” said the secretary of the local government, Rodrigo Reyes, to the television station Milenio. .
One more young man from the group of seven, identified as Sergio Yobani Acevedo, 18, was found last Wednesday, September 27, alive, although injured.
The victims, between 14 and 18 years old, had been kidnapped early Sunday morning by an armed group on a farm in the town of Villanueva, where they had attended a party. They were friends with each other and four of them were minors.
In the last few hours, it was announced that the parents of six teenagers murdered by the Mexican cartel received cruel video images of a hitman leading the children to their death with a disturbing skeleton mask.
In the video, filmed by the same subject wearing a terrifying skeleton mask to cover his face, the seven children walk behind their killer up a hill in what appears to be the middle of nowhere in the central state of Zacatecas. from Mexico.
They are all blindfolded, barefoot, dressed in black hoodies, and with their hands tied behind their backs as they helplessly follow in the footsteps of their kidnapper. The victims have been identified as: Diego Rodríguez, 17 years old; Jorge Ocon, 14, and his cousin Héctor Salcedo, 14; Gumaro Santacruz, 18 years old; Óscar Rojas, 15, and Jesús Rodríguez, 18 years old.
A teenager, identified as Sergio Acevedo, 18, survived the heinous attack, but suffered a wound to the head and nose and was rushed to a hospital where he is guarded by police, the Zacatecas Attorney General’s Office said Wednesday. in the afternoon.
In the video, the cartel member leading the group of teenagers appears to be armed and is joined by other gang members who follow the children with more weapons. The video was shown on local news channel Milenio TV, because the distraught parents of the dead teenagers were desperate to refute Mexican officials’ claims that their children had not been kidnapped.
The young people were taken to a hill in Zacatecas while their parents asked for their release. | Photo: Photo Supplied
The video was allegedly sent in an effort to blackmail families by tormenting them with cruel images.
The kidnapping occurred when the children, all friends and cousins, were away with their families for a weekend near the town of Malapso. On the way, a group of armed men suddenly entered the building, firing shots into the air.
The group of gangsters took all the teenagers while they were still barefoot and that’s when they took them down the hill and filmed the terrifying video that they later used in an extortion attempt.
Reyes explained that Acevedo is “stable” in a hospital in the city of Zacatecas, where he is being treated for bruises on his head and face.
In the afternoon, the Zacatecas prosecutor, Francisco Murillo, reported that two teenagers, ages 15 and 16, have been arrested for their probable relationship with the crime. “We have witnesses who recognize that they may be part of the armed group that took the victims,” he said.
The president of Mexico referred to the disappearance of the teenagers. | Photo: WEEK
The death of the six young people occurred a month and a half after the kidnapping and possible murder of five other boys, childhood friends, in Lagos de Moreno (state of Jalisco, west), a case that caused shock.
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