TJ Couple Shot in the trunk of their Car while Hitmen Rape their Daughter

Yaqui for Borderland Beat from: ZETA By:  Inés García Ramos


A couple was murdered in the trunk of their car for drug trafficking to the US; their daughter forcibly raped then forced to move their bodies.

A married couple was executed in the trunk of their vehicle by a group of men, who also sexually abused their minor daughter. The teenager was then forced to drive the car where the bodies of her parents were found. The line of investigation of the crime points to drug trafficking. 

The PGJE already searched the address where the crime occurred.

Twenty year acquaintances of the family of Jaqueline and Andrés Martínez claimed that both were quiet people, merchants and parents of three children.
However, according to testimonies incorporated into the file initiated by the double murder of which they were victims, one of the activities of the couple was the trafficking of drugs to the United States.

On the afternoon of Wednesday, April 10, the couple left their house because they had been summoned by a person linked to drug trafficking in a house in the Pedregal neighborhood of Santa Julia in Tijuana. They took their 17-year-old daughter Heidi with them, whom they had picked up from high school, hence she was with them.

The family arrived at the agreed meeting point in their red Toyota Corolla car . But it was a trap to kill them. According to information obtained officially, armed men, who are also part of an organization dedicated to the trafficking of drugs, separated the parents from their daughter.

The minor was taken inside a house and sexually abused by the assassins, who tried to strangle her afterwards with a red rope, but then left her alive.

Separately, the couple was forced into the trunk of their own vehicle and once inside, their killers shot them in the head.

Some time later, not yet determined, the criminals let the girl go, ordering her to take the car and informed her that her parents were in the trunk.

It was just past midnight when Heidi arrived at the Chevron gas station , located at the Rampa Flores Magón, in the direction of the Loma Bonita neighborhood, on the corner of the Libramiento Sur.

The minor walked past the gas pumps, left the car traversed in the lanes inside the station and walked to the dispatchers.

She explained to the employees that her parents were in the trunk. When the Municipal Police officers arrived who responded to the report of the workers, they observed the teenager at the side of the vehicle, which still had the engine running and the lights on.

One of the policemen approached the car and saw blood stains leave the trunk, so he opened it to inspect and observed the two bodies.

At first, Heidi was considered to be responsible for the double homicide, since she was driving the car in which the bodies were moved, but once she spoke with the investigating agents, they realized that she was a victim.

SEXUAL AGGRESSION IN THE ADJUSTMENT OF DRUGS ACCOUNTS:

Although, about 80 % of the intentional homicides that are registered in Tijuana have as motive  related to drug dealing, according to investigations carried out by the Attorney General's Office of the State (PGJE), in few occasions there is a record of sexual aggressions.

This does not necessarily mean that it does not occur frequently, only that victims rarely report the crime to the PGJE, precisely because of the links they have with illicit activities, explained a specialist consulted by ZETA .

In the case of this double homicide and sexual violation, the PGJE will follow the research line of drug trafficking as the motive and the researchers are integrating the investigative folder.

However, they consider atypical the decision of the murderers to leave the child alive.

COLLECT TEST ELEMENTS ON THE CRIME SCENE:

A few days ago, a judge issued a search warrant for the ministerial police to inspect the address where the outrage and the murders occurred.

The agents entered the house made with wooden pieces in a small plot of land. They found a dirty place, a mattress on the floor, a few pieces of furniture and the rope with which they tried to assassinate Heidi. They also found a series of sexual assault evidence to integrate into the research portfolio.

However, until the close of this edition, those responsible for the double homicide and rape had not been detained.

THE INVESTIGATIONS:

Early Thursday, April 11, staff of Expert Services PGJE came to the gas station to collect information of the vehicle where the bodies had been found Jaqueline and Andrew.

The station closed operations during the hours that the expert works took. Due to the little human and vehicular traffic of the avenue at that time, the bodies of the 36-year-old woman and the 43-year-old man were processed on the site.

The experts removed each of the bodies and placed them on the floor of the station to begin photographing them and collecting clues. They were even stripped of their clothes to capture the holes in the bullets in photography.

The red 2011 Toyota Corolla , with boundary plates and registered to Jaqueline, was also revised. No bullet casings were found, however from the doors of the driver, copilot and rear to the trunk, where the bodies were placed, the experts took samples of fingerprints and other possible traces of evidence of those who committed the crime.

Heidi declared what she remembers of the events to the staff of the PGJE, which in turn removed her from responsibility for the events and handed her over to the custody of the Municipal System for the Integral Development of the Family, where she remained until the realization of this note.

Heidi has a few months before turning 18, but until a relative of legal age goes to prove his or her  kinship, she can not leave the shelter as a minor.

As for Jaqueline and Andrés, none had criminal records in Mexico, so authorities have not been able to link them to any specific group of drug traffickers in the region.