Boy, 14, dubbed ‘El Chapito’ is arrested after ‘opening fire on a family birthday party in drug-related mass shooting that left eight dead’ in Mexico
- The 14-year-old allegedly rode up on a motorcycle and opened fire on a family
- Shooting took place on a family in the Mexico City suburb of Chimalhuacan
- Victims were having a party, which also left five adults and two children injured
A 14-year-old boy dubbed ‘El Chapito’ has been arrested after allegedly opening fire on a family birthday party in a drug-related mass shooting that left eight people dead in Mexico.
The young teenager, nicknamed after the infamous Mexican drug lord Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman, is said to have rode up on a motorcycle and opened fire on a family in the low-income Mexico City suburb of Chimalhuacan on January 22.
Another man, known as El Nono, was arrested in connection with the shooting, while seven others gang members were charged with drug-related crimes, according to the federal Public Safety Department. The 14-year-old boy’s real name was not released.
The family were reportedly celebrating a birthday party at the time of the savage attack, which also left five adults and two children including a three-year-old child, wounded.
A 14-year-old boy dubbed ‘El Chapito’ has been arrested after allegedly opening fire on a family birthday party in a drug-related mass shooting that killed eight. (file image)
Mexican authorities released this image in relation to the arrests but did not state whether the child was among them
It has not yet been made public what the motive behind the killings was, but drug gangs in Mexico frequently dabble in kidnapping and contract killing.
While the adults were taken to the Neza-Bordo Penitentiary and Social Reintegration Center, the 14-year-old was placed at the disposal of a specialized control judge in the Comprehensive Criminal Justice System for Adolescents.
It is not uncommon for drug gangs to kill rivals who are selling drugs on their territory, or people who owe them money.
Unfortunately, Mexico is no stranger to child killers and this is not the first case of a young boy getting arrested for committing heinous crimes.
In 2010, soldiers detained a 14-year-old boy nicknamed ‘El Ponchis’ who claimed he was kidnapped at age 11 and forced to work for the Cartel of the South Pacific, a branch of the splintered Beltran Leyva gang.
He said he had participated in at least four decapitations.
After his arrest, the boy, who authorities identified only by his first name, Edgar, told reporters that he was drugged and threatened into committing the crimes.
Also Thursday, prosecutors in the northern border state of Sonora said they had arrested a woman linked to as many as nine murders in the border city of Mexicali.
The state prosecutors’ office said that the woman had outstanding warrants for two killings, but that she had been named in seven other homicide investigations. The office did not say what the possible motives might be in those killings.
The young teenager was nicknamed after the infamous Mexican drug lord Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman. Pictured: El Chapo escorted by Drug Enforcement Administration agents in New York in 2017 following his extradition from Mexico
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