WARNING: GRAPHIC VIDEO
A few days ago,
two people were executed in the streets of Venustiano Carranza, a borough
in Mexico City. The victims were Jesús Rangel Barragán ("Leónidas")
and Karen Nalliby Mustafa Estrada, the suspected girlfriend of member of La
Unión Tepito, a criminal group based in Mexico City.
Hours later, a
surveillance video that captured the murder began to circulate on social media.
In the video, the two victims were observed walking on the sidewalk next to
each other. From their right a gunman approached them and shoots them in point-blank range.
Immediately, two more men arrive from the front and shoot at them too. The
attack did not last more than 10 seconds. Investigators confirmed that the
victims were shot more than twenty-five times.
The assassins
were three men who were riding motorcycles driven by three other suspects. Two
of those vehicles were found that same day by the Mexico City police in a
neighborhood near the crime scene. Mexican journalist Carlos Jiménez
released the video and described that Karen Nalliby was helping Barragán to
walk because he was blind from an attack he suffered in 2019.
Previous attack
Barragán, the
male victim in the video, was shot in the face on 13 November 2019. He did not
die but was permanently blinded. Barragán was at a party with Valeria
Díaz, the suspected girlfriend of Alexis Martínez Martínez ("El
Alexis"), a high-ranking member of La Unión Tepito.
"El Alexis" is
reportedly responsible for cloning credit cards for the criminal group to
carry out illegal activities. In 2019, "El Alexis" and his girlfriend
were arrested but they were released shortly thereafter.
After spending
two months in the hospital, Barragán was released. Doctors told him
he would never see again. People close to Barragán stated that Díaz invited him to the party so others could kill him. The motives for Barragán's attempted murder were not established.
Murder
Death caught up
to Barragán last week when he was murdered in broad daylight along with Karen Nalliby.
Karen Nalliby was 30 years old and had a twelve-year-old son. She ran a nail salon in Mexico
City. Sources outside of law enforcement confirmed that Karen Nalliby was one
of Las Novias de La Unión ("The Girlfriends from
La Unión"), a group of girls who date members of the criminal group.
According to
investigators, both Barragán and Karen Nalliby had visited
Samantha, another girlfriend of a member of La Unión. However, when
they left Samantha's house, they were already being watched by their assassins.
Barragán died
at the scene. Paramedics took Karen Nalliby alive in an
ambulance. However, she died shortly upon arrival at a nearby hospital. No one
went to claim Barragán's body. Karen Nalliby was buried the
following day.
Gangsters and
their girlfriends
Karen Nalliby is not the first girlfriend from a member of La Union that has been killed. In
December 2018, Karina Itzel Morales Baltazar went missing
in Tlalnepantla, State of Mexico, after going to a music concert with
"El Alexis" and Brayan Mauricio González ("El
Pozoles"). "El Pozoles" was responsible for the murder of
several women, including an Argentine and Venezuelan. These deaths were covered
by Borderland Beat (see here and here).
Atzin Molina
Salinas ("La Medusa") went missing in Cuauhtémoc, Mexico City, in
February 2019. Morales was dating "El Manzanas", a high-ranking
member of La Unión who took control of the criminal group after the
arrest of Roberto Mollado Esparza ("El Betito"). She was last
seen with "El Manzanas" at a bar the night she disappeared.
Mexico City
authorities are offering a MXN$2 million reward for anyone that provides
valuable information that leads to the whereabouts of both women.
Source(s): Radio Formula; C4 Noticias; MSN Noticias; Excelsior
They made his hat fly off with bullets! Trick shot!
ReplyDeleteI don't feel sorry for her .I feel sorry for kids.
ReplyDeleteHoly mackerel broad daylight, obviously one cartel that does not like the other.
ReplyDeleteThis is a situation that requires the union tepito leadership be put under arrest, incommunicado, and all their assets and their associates confiscated,
ReplyDeleteI'd bet revenges, suspicions and ambitions has been leading causes of these crimes, and the murderers are not eligible for the death penalty...
So much for the PRI and PAN denials about criminal cartels in Mexico City when it was ruled by the likes of genarco garcia Luna and Luis cardenas palomino, his work wife, for their own good, arrest and lock them up, and throw away the keys.
I believe they have arrest Tepito leader more than a couple of times, and he keeps getting released.
DeleteAll the union tepito leadership needs to be locked up, just tell each arrested member his goodfellas are going to be screwing their wife if they are on the loose and they will name them to keep each other company in the joint.
DeleteDime con quien te juntas, y te digo quien eres.
ReplyDeleteGuilty by association for many.
it's all fun & games until it's not & you got hitters coming after you.
ReplyDeleteWhat is wrong with them, dude was already blind...
ReplyDelete5:37 blind does not mean mute,
Deletegangsters should keep a diary and tell it everything they know in case somebody wants to silence them.
Is it just me or does this look Colombia style?
ReplyDeleteYou're right. I think it's the motorcycles.
DeleteThats how they do it in Mexico city or in big Mexican cities because its harder to get away in cards with all the traffic.
DeleteSeem like the Couple were scum bags, but still sad tho
ReplyDeleteTell me it's not sad seeing Mexicans doing Mexicans like this...
ReplyDelete11:23 it could be worse if somebody declared war against mexican "terrorists" as some "mexican people" have been trying the US to do.
Delete--They just want to make millions off spreading more suffering to the masses through carpet bombings and get back to political power through ass kissing to the high and mighty.
People kiss Lopez Obrador's hands, not his ass,
As he tries to govern better for all.
Prison or an early death, the only result of drugs.
ReplyDeleteThey knew the risks. No real loss here.
ReplyDelete8:27 you are not facking blind, you just can't see.
ReplyDeleteMaybe you could turn ON that "light bulb"