Durango District Attorney's Office Declines Investigation Into Murder Of Sinaloa Youths

"Sol Prendido" for Borderland Beat

The Durango prosecutor's office informed on Monday that the Sinaloa prosecutor's office will be in charge of the investigation, since it is presumed that the murder occurred in that state.

The eight victims were allegedly abducted and killed in the state of Sinaloa.

The prosecutor of the state of Durango, Sonia Yadira de la Garza, warned that her office declined to continue with the investigation into the murder of the eight men who were found dead early Saturday morning in the municipality of Tamazula.

According to the state official, the eight people found dead and who were identified as Germán Alexis, Jesús, Alexis, Joel, Chande, Elizalde and Abel, including 13 year old Jesús, had been abducted in Culiacán, Sinaloa and murdered in that state.

26-year-old man found dead on highway in Mapimí, Durango

According to the information available from the investigation, and due to the fact that the kidnapping took place in Culiacán, Sinaloa, and because of the state of the bodies, which had been tortured and killed several hours before, it is presumed that it was also carried out in that state.

For this reason, said De la Garza Fragoso, the Durango Prosecutor's Office will decline jurisdiction to the Sinaloa Prosecutor's Office to continue with the investigation of the facts.

The prosecutor clarified that on Saturday morning, at approximately 07:15 hours, a convoy coming from Sinaloa entered the municipal capital of Tamazula and abandoned six bodies on División del Norte and Real Felix streets, which at first sight showed signs of torture, bullet wounds and had already been dead for some hours, besides they did not find any bullet holes in the area.

Later, at approximately 10:00 a.m., they reported that on the side of the road leading to the municipal capital, they found two more bodies, which, like the previous ones, had marks of torture, and gunshot wounds. 

The eight victims were allegedly abducted and killed in the state of Sinaloa 

They also left a pickup truck at the site, which had a large amount of blood in the box it was in the same truck where the bodies were presumably taken to the municipality of Tamazula.

It was a family member who recognized them and assured that among the dead was Jesús, 13 years old, who had an Amber Alert in the state of Sinaloa.

According to the information gathered by the FGE, Alexis, Joel, Chande, Elizalde, Abel and Alberto were kidnapped in Culiacán on Sunday, October 22, while Germán and Jesús were taken on Tuesday, October 24 in the same city. A missing persons report was made at the Sinaloa Attorney General's Office in lieu of this. 

Tamazula, Durango

Bodies abandoned on Calle Division del Norte and Calle General Carlos Real Félix streets in the Platios Blancos neighborhood of Tamazula.

Distance between Culiacán, Sinaloa and Tamazula, Durango

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