CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico - protect killed a mother who had been before three days protest a Governor's Office in North Mexico to demand justice for slain daughter, authorities said Friday.
Masked men in a car pulled up Thursday night and shot Marisela Escobedo Ortiz in the head in front of the Governor's Office in Chihuahua, capital city of Chihuahua State, said Jorge Gonzalez, Special Prosecutor's Office for crime prevention.
Surveillance cameras around the Government showed armed out from the car and Mrs Escobedo runs in the road towards the Governor's Palace, but one your down the armed hunted and shot thumbnail – repeatedly on national television broadcasts transmitted.
A spokesman for the State Attorney general's Office, Carlos González, said that's arming evil words brother exchanged with Mrs Escobedo just before the shooting. Researchers one believe you is Sergio Barraza, who had been the main suspect in the killing of Ms. of Escobedo's 17-year-old daughter, he said. He was in April for lack of a court to prove acquitted.
Mrs Escobedo took ambulance to a hospital where she died within minutes.
Had for a conviction in the killing of her daughter, Rubi Frayre Escobedo, campaigns were, which burned and dismembered remains in a recycle bin in the border city June 2009 were found from Ciudad Juarez on 18. She had for a nearly year from.
The case is an example of the problems of the judicial system in Chihuahua State used most imposing for Mexican studies one of the first in Mexico instead oral tests of the system of closed door interrogate and submission of documents.
Mrs Escobedo had staged numerous marches, once wear no clothes in a banner with her daughter photo wrapped.
"This struggle not only for my daughter is" Escobedo said then through a megaphone to break your voice. "Can not allow us more young woman in this city to be killed."
Three days ago, Mrs Escobedo planted at the offices of Governor César Duarte and vowed not to move until investigators showed progress in the case. In an interview with the newspaper El Diario on Sunday said Mrs Escobedo you Mr Barraza's family death threats received.
Governor Duarte said State security officials assigned to protect of the woman Escobedo, although from a distance. He said their failure to protect woman Escobedo would be examined on Thursday.
Prosecutors said Mr. Barraza, Frayre's kitchen friend, allowed to kill her and led the police to the body. But during the test, he proclaimed his innocence and claimed, he had been tortured into confessing. A judge ruled in April that prosecutors failed to present material evidence against him.
Despite training, police and prosecutors have struggled Chihuahua to adapt a system that puts the burden of proof on prosecutors. Many homicide cases have to lack prove been expelled or never make it to court. Often police rely solely on denominations, the suspicious later claim made under duress have been. Newly recorded suspect in much of Mexico appear often in the press with bruised faces.
Governor Duarte, threw the Court but to release Mr. Barraza. He said he sought that Chihuahua judicial the three judges fire, the Presidency of the case, that the legislature of the judge their immunity from prosecution Strip, so that you can be charged with abuse of power.
In Ciudad Juarez, where Frayre was killed, police have overwhelmed by drug gang battles that have made the city worldwide tödlichsten one. More than 3,000 people have killed city of 1.3 million in this year alone.
Records show that were killed last year than 2,600 people in Ciudad Juárez prosecutors filed 93 homicide cases and has 19 convictions.
Chihuahua's judicial shortcomings go back years before the new system has been implemented, or drugs gang violence rose to an unprecedented level.
In the 1990s, hundreds of women to Ciudad Juarez, with about 100 were sexually assaulted and killed in desert dumped.
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