14-year-old dubbed ‘El Chapito’ arrested for 8 murders in Mexico City – National | 24CA News
A 14-year-old boy has been arrested for the drive-by shootings of eight individuals in a suburb of Mexico City, in line with Mexico’s Public Safety Department. The boy’s title has not been made public, although he was recognized by his nickname “El Chapito” in a authorities press launch.
The killings occurred on Jan. 22 in Chimalhuacan, a city within the Greater Mexico City space. Police allege {the teenager} and one other man dubbed “El Ñoño” rode up on bikes to a home social gathering and unleashed a hail of bullets. Three individuals died on the scene with 5 others later succumbing to their accidents in hospital.
Seven others had been injured within the assault, together with two minors aged three and 14. The partygoers that day had been reportedly celebrating a birthday. A photograph taken by Mexican media of the crime scene confirmed scattered chairs and a trampoline on the garden with balloons and decorations arrange.
Police say the slayings had been associated to drug cartel exercise. El Chapito and El Ñoño had been arrested for homicide in a weekend raid together with seven different individuals, allegedly fellow members of a neighborhood gang, who had been indicted on drug prices.
The nickname El Chapito, or Little Chapo, is an obvious reference to imprisoned drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman. El Ñoño means “the nerd.”
The motive within the killings has not been made public, however drug gangs in Mexico often dabble in kidnapping and contract killing. They additionally kill rivals promoting medication on their territory, or individuals who owe them cash.
Mexico can be no stranger to little one killers. Drug cartels have infamously exploited kids as “sicarios” or assassins as a result of minors obtain shorter jail sentences.
In 2010, troopers detained a 14-year-old boy nicknamed “El Ponchis” who claimed he was kidnapped at age 11 and compelled to work for the Cartel of the South Pacific, a department of the splintered Beltran Leyva gang. He stated he had participated in not less than 4 decapitations.
After his arrest, the boy, who authorities recognized solely by his first title, Edgar, advised reporters that he was drugged and threatened into committing the crimes.
A 2021 research from the Network for Children’s Rights in Mexico estimated that there are 30,000 kids working for cartels as lookouts, street-level sellers and sicarios. The group discovered {that a} quarter of one million kids are liable to being recruited by cartels.
— With information from The Associated Press
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