El Cuco", "El Niño", "El Franklin", "El Chavalito" And "El Especial" Involved In Crime Of Young Woman Burned Alive And Her Friend In Culiacán: Sinaloa

 "Char" for Borderland Beat 

This article was translated and reposted from Los Noticieristas 

Mayra Michelle ✞

On February 5, 2024, Borderland Beat covered the death of a woman who was found with severe burns on her body with the name Mayra Michelle, and her male friend shot to death.  Los Noticieristas news site based out of Sinaloa wrote the following article stating that those responsible for the death of Mayra Michelle were captured, but nothing on whether an organized crime group ordered the death. 

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Culiacán, Sin.- There are five people implicated in the "levantón" and murder of young Michelle and her friend Ernesto, four who have been arrested and one who remains at large, revealed sources from the Sinaloa Prosecutor's Office to Los Noticieristas.

They are accused of depriving the two young men of their freedom on February 1. On that day Michelle had passed by Ernesto in her white 2019 Volkswagen Jetta to his house to go eat seafood and later they had plans to go to a bar in the city, but they were "picked up" on the way.

Those involved are:

-Juan José "A", alias "El Cuco", 28 years old.

-Angel Noé "F", nicknamed "El Niño", whose age was not provided.

-Franklin Manuel "G", alias "El Franklin", 19 years old.

-Jorge Alejandro "M", "El Chavalito" or "El Yosh", 30 years old.

-Jesús Alberto "M", alias "El Especial", 26 years old.

The crime

It was not until February 4 when Ernesto and Michelle were found on the side of the Mexico highway at kilometer 169, belonging to the San Lorenzo syndicate. The young man, who worked as an eyelashes-for-appointments man, was shot and tortured.

The cause of death was determined to be hypovolemic shock and hepatic and pulmonary laceration caused by gunshot wounds to the thorax and abdomen. He also had a bullet wound in his cheek; torture marks in different parts of his body and marks on his wrists. While Michelle, a businesswoman, who had a boutique in the Corona plaza in the vicinity of Espacios Barcelona in the northern part of the city, was found burned, but alive, dying hours later in a hospital.

Michelle was shot twice

Michelle's cause of death was multiple organ dysfunction secondary to superficial and deep first and second-degree burns in 100 percent of her body produced by direct fire. But that was not all, the 26-year-old also had two bullets: one in her right leg and the other in her left thigh.

They are down!

The arrest warrants against the alleged perpetrators, alleged hired killers, were released last Friday, February 16, and subsequently arrested over the weekend.

They are accused of the crimes of forced disappearance of persons, femicide and aggravated homicide for the "KIDNAPPING" and murder of Ernesto and Michelle.

Four were arrested in the community of Campo Chama on the Aguaruto-Villa Juarez highway, Navolato, and a vehicle, cell phones, firearms and shell casings were seized.

One of them is a fugitive from justice, however, it has not been specified which of the five is the perpetrator. The mastermind and motive for the crime have not been determined.

SOURCE: LOS NOTICIERISTAS