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Suspect confesses to role in killings of Mexican photojournalist, 4 women

August 6th, 2015 (EFE) The lone detainee in the killings of Mexican photojournalist Ruben Espinosa and four women in this capital has confessed to his involvement in the crime and provided “some information” about the two other suspects, Mexico City’s district attorney said Thursday.

Rodolfo Rios told the Televisa network he is confident the two other suspected perpetrators will be “located soon” but declined to provide details on the motive for the quintuple homicide.

He did reveal, however, that investigators have evidence that the three suspects, who were seen in security footage leaving the crime scene, “spent approximately one hour in the apartment” where the killings occurred.

They arrived at the residence a few minutes after 2:00 p.m. last Friday and left shortly after 3:00 p.m., the capital district attorney said.

The bodies of Espinosa and the four women, including rights activist Nadia Vera, were found with gunshot wounds and signs of torture inside the apartment, located in the central Mexico City neighborhood of Narvarte.

Rios said in a press conference Wednesday that one suspect had been detained on the basis of a fingerprint found inside the apartment.

The 31-year-old Espinosa, who was working for the Cuartoscuro photo agency and the Proceso newsweekly, had returned to Mexico City in June after eight years as a journalist in Xalapa, capital of the Gulf coast state of Veracruz.

He said he had been forced to flee due to death threats and harassment, his friends and colleagues said.

Just last week, Espinosa expressed concern that he was being pursued by someone in the capital, Cuartoscuro director Pedro Valtierra told EFE.

A man went up to Espinosa recently at a restaurant and asked him if he was the photographer who had fled from Veracruz, Valtierra said earlier this week.

Espinosa told the unidentified man that he was, prompting the stranger to reply that “you should know that we’re here,” the Cuartoscuro director said.

The murders are a fresh blow to the media profession in Mexico, one of the world’s most dangerous countries for journalists, and they also come as a shock to residents of this capital, a metropolis less hard hit by organized crime-related violence than other areas of the country.

 

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