Nine days after the murder of the former beauty queen of Baja California, Carolina Flores Gomezthe Attorney General’s Office of Mexico City (FGJ) continues the investigations into the events that occurred within a department located in the colony Polancovery close to the Miguel Hidalgo mayor’s officein the mexican capital.
At 12:00 p.m. this Friday, April 24, the Mexican authorities had not finalized any detention related to this case, which gained greater international attention after the dissemination of a recording on social networks that suggests the alleged participation in the crime of Erika María Herrera, the victim’s mother-in-law.
Meanwhile, dozens of Internet users on digital platforms were called to participate in a peaceful march to demand justice by Carolina Flores Gómez, who eight months ago had become a mother for the first time, after giving birth to her daughter, who for now remains in the custody of her father, Alejandro Sanchez.
The Attorney General’s Office of Mexico had opened an investigation folder for intentional homicide. However, after protests by feminist groups against the classification of the crime, the FGJ reconsidered it and classified it as feminicidethe murder of a woman for reasons of gender, the most extreme of sexist violence.
The chronology of the Carolina Flores case
Wednesday April 15
During the afternoon of the past Wednesday April 15, Former model Carolina Flores Gómez, 27 years old, was in her apartment located in the Polanco neighborhood, section III, very close to the Miguel Hidalgo mayor’s office, along with her husbandAlejandro Sánchez, 28 years old; his daughter of eight months, and his mother-in-lawErika María Herrera, 54 years old.
A video captured inside the property recorded a strong discussion between the victim and her mother-in-law, followed by several detonations outside the camera angle. However, in the audio recording the husband is heard saying: “What did you do, mom?”to which she responds: “I didn’t do anything, it made me angry. You’re mine, she’s not.”
Thursday April 16
One day after the murder, the victim’s husband filed a complaint with the Attorney General’s Office of Mexico City, for it that the authorities went to the apartment located on Edgar Allan Poe Street, where the body of Carolina Flores was located with multiple gunshot wounds. bulletmainly in the head and the chest.
The officers secured several clues, such as bushings and a 9 mm caliber weaponthe most versatile global standard for personal defense. Hours later, the body of Carolina Flores Gómez was handed over to her relatives, who began to demand justice and they questioned the initial performance of the authorities in Mexico City.
Friday, April 17 and subsequent days
The investigators identified the mother-in-law as main suspectsince it remains fugitive. Faced with this situation, the Mexican authorities integrated expert evidence, interviews and analysis of the recording as key pieces to reconstruct the events of a case which generated indignation in much of the Mexican territory.
For the morning of this Friday, April 24, the Attorney General’s Office of Mexico City keeps several lines open while the evidence analysis to clarify what happened within the department. Faced with this scenario, the authorities of Baja California offered collaboration directly in the investigation of this case.