New images have showed the house where five students were reportedly killed by the Mexican cartel.
One man is said to have been made to decapitate his childhood friend before he himself was killed. According to the Daily Mail, video footage released by the cartel members shows childhood friends Roberto Olmeda, 20; Diego Lara, 20; Uriel Galván, 19; Dante Cedillo, 22; and Jaime Martínez, 21, kneeling next to each other in order.
The men have bruised faces while their hands and mouths are taped. It currently remains unclear how they managed to get on the wrong sde of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel.
A video circulating on social media shows the beheadings. It shows a wall with the cartel’s logo on it behind the group, who had been missing for a number of days.
Investigators say they secured a property in the Orilla del Agua area. Inside they discovered four charred human skulls and blood stains on the ground.
The Fiscalía del Estado de Jalisco said: “As a result of the work carried out, ministerial agents and the Investigation Police located a house in the colony Orilla del Agua in the said municipality, where clues were found, among them, hematic stains and footwear, which suggest that the five young men were in that estate.
“These search and locating works carried out will continue to give up to young people, so the Prosecutor’s Office of Jalisco reiterates its commitment to citizenship since it is a priority for the State to locate all those people that count on a report for his disappearance.”
The Mail says the video shows three of the victims laying face down. Another is then forced to beat, stab, and decapitate them.
The discovery comes just days after police discovered a vehicle in flames with human remains. Investigators confirmed that the car belongs to Olmeda.
Galvan’s car was located on Sunday. The men have not yet been formally identified by the authorities.
It is thought the five students gathered at a fair in Lagos de Moreno. They were on their way home when they disappeared at a viewpoint in the neighbourhood of San Miguel.
As a result of the work carried out, ministerial agents and the Investigation Police located a house in the colony Orilla del Agua in the said municipality, where clues were found, among them, hematic stains and footwear, which suggest that the five young men were in that estate.
These search and locating works carried out will continue to give up to young people, so the Prosecutor’s Office of Jalisco reiterates its commitment to citizenship since it is a priority for the State to locate all those people that count on a report for his disappearance.
Lara is said to be the one who contacted his family last. He sent a text saying he would be home around 11pm.
Governor Enrique Alfaro linked their disappearance to drug cartels. On his social media accounts, he wrote: “What we are seeing here is an act clearly linked to organized crime.”
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has not given any indication the central government will step in.
a fair in Lagos de Moreno
