This coming Thursday, the authorities in Mexico City will determine whether to bring Jesús Hernández Alcocer and his driver to trial for the shooting attack on the former’s wife, singer Yrma Lydya Gamboa.
The facts for which Hernández Alcocer, a lawyer of 79 years, and his subordinate, are being tried, only identified as Benjamín “N”, were reported on June 24 at the Suntory restaurant in Colonia del Valle in the City Hall Benito Juárez.
The Mexican regional music artist and who was part of the cast of the musical show “GranDiosas”, supposedly had 21 years; but some reports question this fact and indicate that he was older.
The suspect shot the victim in the chest three times, and then fled the scene with the help of his driver.
The local police chief, Omar García Harfuch, reported that the alleged murderer and accomplice, of 24 years old, they were arrested when they tried to escape in the car.
The authorities filed charges of femicide against Hernández Alcocer.
The Prosecutor’s Office of the City of Mexico maintains that the gunman intended to kill his wife.
The couple had even been separated for several weeks.
According to the report by Noticieros Televisa, Gamboa had denounced Hernández Alcocer, the 20 December 2021, for domestic abuse before the Public Ministry of the Álvaro Obregón Prosecutor’s Office. But, later, she withdrew her complaint
The complaint was made after she was in a restaurant having dinner, the man began to verbally assault her. Allegedly, already at home, the lawyer physically assaulted her.
In her statement to the authorities, the singer assured that the suspect put a gun to her forehead, threatened to kill her, and then hit him on the head.
Also, he spit on her and kicked her. The abuse continued until they took her to her bed, pulling her by her hair. There, with a pistol, he allegedly began to tap her on the stomach with the pistol and to insist on death threats.
On the day of the murder, the man had summoned her to the restaurant where he had reserved a distant place to the rest of the diners. Before entering with the weapon hidden in his clothes, the defendant told the driver to be on the lookout.
According to the information handled by the Prosecutor’s Office, at the meeting, the woman made clear her interest in separated, and was even making notes on paper.
On Sunday, a judge at the North Prison ordered preventive detention for the two defendants.
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