The prosecutor, Villarreal Macias, said two other suspects still being sought also participated in the killings, piling the corpses of the three young children atop those of the five adults on beds in the home. He said at that point he took 2,500 pesos ($192) from the pockets and purses of people at the home and left. He told reporters that he heard screaming, went inside and saw Romero Sanchez and one woman dead. “I was guarding the door, but I didn’t kill anybody,” Mendoza Hernandez said. He said he stood guard outside while the other suspect, Edgar Lujan Guevara, 31, stabbed the family members. Neither appeared physically mistreated, but only one of them, Jesus Mendoza Hernandez, 21, spoke to reporters. At that time, Romero Sanchez said he didn’t have the money.Ī widespread lack of confidence in the justice system of Ciudad Juarez and suspicions that confessions have been tortured from innocent people led prosecutors to present the two men in custody to the press and allow journalists to ask them questions Wednesday. We are in shock.”Įarlier in the day, prosecutors said the killers had gone to the family’s home a month ago trying to collect a debt that was owed by Romero Sanchez for a $115 stud fee for a dog. They would come to the church’s meetings every Thursday and Sunday,” church elder Ismael Toribio said. “They, the family, were honorable people, dedicated to the church and to God. CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) - Grieving neighbors and friends are struggling to understand the horrific killing of eight members of a religious family, including three young children - a massacre that prosecutors in this Mexican border city say was over a $115 debt the father couldn’t repay.Ībout 150 people gathered Wednesday night at the Jehovah’s Witnesses Kingdom Hall in Ciudad Juarez for the funeral service of four members of the family whose head, Maximo Romero Sanchez, worked as a mechanic and fixed and sold used cars.
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