They arrested “El Chapito”, a 14-year-old teenager accused of killing eight people in Mexico

Mexican authorities arrested a 14 year old teenager known as “The captain”which he is accused of having eight people shot to death and wounded seven others near the Mexico Citythe Department of Public Safety reported on Thursday.

Although the authorities only broke the news that Thursday, the capture took place in the middle of an operation that took place between last Friday and Saturday. Also two women and six men were arrestedincluding a young man nicknamed as “the nerd”also listed as the material perpetrator of the murders.

The other inmates, all of them accused of drug crimesThey were identified as Erika Patricia “N”, Lesly Karina “N”, “El Ñoño”, Brandon Yael “N”, Jesús “N”, Jonathan Emmanuel “N”, Julio “N” and Luis Enrique “N”.

The adults were taken to the Neza-Bordo Penitentiary and Social Reintegration Center, and the only minor identified as “El Chapito” was handed over to a probation judge who specializes in the comprehensive criminal justice system for teenagers.

“The initial investigations revealed that on January 22, a family celebrated a birthday in the Fundidores neighborhood, in Chimalhuacán, when a group of armed men arrived on motorcycles“, they reported in the official part.

Three adults died at the scene., while five others lost their lives while receiving medical treatment in various hospitals in the area. The attack also left seven people injured, including two children aged under 3 and 14 respectively.

The operation, which achieved a total of no nine arrestshe headed elements of the Homicide Prosecutor of the Attorney General of the State of Mexico (FGJEM), the Commission for Attention to the Crime of Intentional Homicide (CONAHO), and the National Anti-Kidnapping Coordination (Conase).

Previously, on February 25, in Chimalhuacán, they had captured Leonardo “N”, alias “Languages”28 years old, which is listed as the leader of that gang.

Child killers are not a rarity in Mexico. In 2010, the army arrested a 14-year-old boy nicknamed “El Ponchis”. He said he was kidnapped at the age of 11 and forced to work for the South Pacific Cartel.a detachment of Beltrán Leyva’s band, and who had participated in at least four beheadings.

Mexico has suffered a wave of violence that has escalated since 2006, when the government further militarized its strategy against drug traffickers, resulting in 350,000 homicides and tens of thousands of disappearances, mostly attributed to organized crime.