The 14-year-old girl received two bullet wounds, one in the abdomen and the other in the chest (El Sureste)

A minor, 14 years oldwas shot dead in front of the front door of her house, in an event that provoked the indignation of the inhabitants of the municipality of Villaflores, Chiapas, the city where the events took place. There State Attorney General’s Office She did not comment on the issue, in a case that the population of the region asks not to go unpunished.

On Friday, February 10, around 7:00 p.m., two suspected hitmen on a motorbike shot twice at a 14-year-old girl, who was playing on the sidewalk at the entrance to her house, which is located in the Colony of Santa Catarina, municipality of Villaflores, in the state of Chiapas. The minor was identified by the name of star of carmelWho He was hit in the abdomen and another in the chest..

The emergency services were mobilized to try to treat the victim, but they could no longer revive her because she died almost immediately, according to reports. For their part, the municipal and state police deployed an operation to locate the alleged attackers, who fled in an unknown direction. The inhabitants of the commune were indignant at this situation, asking the authorities that the affair not go unpunished.

The southern state of the country recorded a violent week, in which seven people were executed, four in Mazapa de Madero where even the bodies were piled up; the other three were split between Tuzantán, Pichucalco and the last on the Chiapa de Corzo-San Cristóbal highway. In addition to two corpses that entered a narcotic pit on Tuesday, February 7.

The alleged attackers fled in an unknown direction (El Sureste)
The alleged attackers fled in an unknown direction (El Sureste)

Two of those killed were the sons of a merchant from the Amatenango de la Frontera areawho lost his wife in 2022, after her death in an alleged assault, killed by criminals.

The case of the murdered minor was similar that of a 21-year-old girl murdered on February 1, in the municipality of Ocozocoautla de Espinosa, with a bullet to the head. The victim, identified as Sandra Paola, was from the town of Berriozábal, a neighboring territory where his death occurred.

It has been reported that was located on the ground by two young men, who immediately requested support from the emergency forces, although nothing could be done to attempt to provide assistance. There State Attorney General’s Office said she had opened investigations under the crime of femicide, trying to trace the whereabouts of the person who committed the alleged murder.

On February 1, inquests were also opened after the death of a primary school teacher, who fHe was located suspended in an elementary school in the state of Chiapas. The FGE has joined the Action protocol from a gender perspective for the investigation of the crime of femicidesince it has not been excluded that his death was due to a femicide.

In 2022, about 40 femicides were recorded in the state of Chiapas.  (Picture: file)
In 2022, about 40 femicides were recorded in the state of Chiapas. (Picture: File)

In 2022, 172 violent deaths of women were recorded in the entity, 40 of them due to femicide, according to data from the Feminist observatory against violence against women in Chiapas. In the last month of the year, there were about ten violent deaths of women; three for homicide, four accidental, one complete femicide and two suspected femicides.

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