Tamaulipas authorities found the body of Édgar Valladares Hernández, el Maestrín, allegedly responsible for the multihomicide of 15 civilians on June 19 in Reynosa.
According to the State attorney, the body of the alleged offender, along with that of another person, had gunshot wounds and marks of torture.
Both were found on the Reynosa-Río Bravo highway, inside a truck on the night of July 26.
“Initially, a driver’s license with the name of Edgar Valladares Hernández was found among the clothes of one of the victims, but according to the expert procedures, forensic and identity studies were carried out to corroborate that information,” the Prosecutor’s Office explained in a statement.
So far, Tamaulipas authorities have arrested 13 people for the multihomicide in Reynosa, however families of some of them have denounced that they are victims of kidnapping indicated by the Prosecutor’s Office.
Last Saturday, June 19, Mexico suffered a terrible massacre against civilians: a convoy of three vehicles with alleged members of organized crime took to the streets of Reynosa that day and shot defenseless citizens at random.
As a result, 15 civilians were massacred. Among them were Eulalio Céspedes, a 37-year-old man who alternated his work in the maquiladora with his studies engineering; Matías De la Cruz Galindo, a 63-year-old bricklayer whothat he was on his way home when the attackers shot him down; and Fernando Ruiz Flores, a 19-year-old nursing technician, among many other victims.
Sergio Hugo Rodríguez Alonso and his brother Cristiano Ronaldo, aged 12 and 10, respectively, were also injured in the attack. The children were in the car with their mother, another sister, and an eight-year-old cousin, when in the Almaguer de Reynosa neighborhood the vehicle in which they were going to play a soccer game he was attacked with bullets by members of organized crime.
Despite the seriousness of the attack, the civil organization Human Rights Committee of Nuevo Laredo denounced that state and federal police authorities it took between 60 and 90 minutes to answer the calls help that residents made to 911, or through social networks.
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