Missing Nursing Student From Uruapan, Mich. Found Dead with Flayed Face

Borderland Beat posted and translated by Pepe Republished from Cambio de Michoacan; 

Updates by DD;

Uruapan, Michoacán.-Erika Kassandra Bravo Caro, 19 years old, a young nursing student missing from Uruapan since Wednesday the 3rd of December, and whose case was reported in social media in efforts to find her, was found dead Saturday morning, with her face flayed and knife wounds to the chest, on the side of the road leading from Uruapan to Los Reyes, near the community Las Cocinas.

According to RED Agency, it was the 3rd of this month, when relatives of the student publicly reported that she had disappeared, being last seen in the the colonia La Quinta, in Uruapan, dressed as a nurse, as she headed to care for some babies, said relatives.

Since then began to circulate on social networks photographs and information on the young woman to try to locate her, as she was much loved and known in the area.

However, in a tragic twist of fate, this Saturday was located the body of Erika in the above conditions.  The case is already being investigated by state authorities. However, the people of this region are worried greatly, since the previous Friday was also found the lifeless body of another woman, who was stoned to death and partially burned, so citizens are demanding more security and justice for these two cases

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Location of Las Cocinas, Michoacán, where the body of Erika was found;

  From Despertar

Uruapan, Mich., Dec. 7 of 2014.- Dressed in black for mourning, about a hundred people have gathered this morning to protest Uruapan by the bloody murder of Erika Kassandra Bravo Caro, a 19 year old nurse whose flayed body was found last Saturday on the road Uruapan to Los Reyes at the height of the community of Los Cocinas after being reported missing from there since Dec. 3..

Assembled around the square of avenue Latin America and Lázaro Cárdenas Paseo, carrying cardboard signs with legends that ask for justice at the time that they cry out: “ I am Kassandra! Not one more! ”, at this time  more people are coming to join the protest.

DD;  The body that was reported found stoned to death  is reported in this story from Despertar;

Ziracuaretiro, Mich. - December 5 2014.- The corpse of a woman, who was stoned and partially burned, was found Friday night at one side of the plaza de toros in the indigenous community of San Andres Coru, belonging to this municipality, said the social representation.

It came out during work on tpday’s news  that the inert body was found around 20:00 am at the above location to where the prosecutor moved in turn to carry out procedures of law.

It was learned that the identity of the  victim is unknown, according to experts who failed to establish their partial identification, due to the conditions under which it was found; who simply said, she is about 30 years old.

 

It was also explained that the scene of the event were located several rocks stained with blood, same presumed were used to attack the now deceased