Police in Caborca, Sonora in Mexico discovered the bodies of the two women and a man, with officers believing the triple murder was part of an ongoing feud
Three people who had been tortured before being shot dead have been found dumped in a dried up river bed with a chilling handwritten note.
The message scrawled on a piece of paper and held down with a rock waned that the same thing would happen to “all grasshoppers”. The work Chapulín means grasshopper in Spanish, but is used in Mexico to refer to a traitor and indicates that the drugs gangs believed these three victims had betrayed them.
Police in Caborca, Sonora discovered the bodies of the two women and a man, with officers believing the triple murder was part of an ongoing feud between organised crime gangs. Local media reported that the victims were a woman with blonde hair, a thinner woman with black hair and a man whose clothing they only revealed, as jeans and a blue T-shirt. It is not known if they have been identified, or their families informed.
The bodies were removed by forensic personnel, while the Criminal Investigation Agency secured the crime scene and began investigations to try to find those responsible. According to data from the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System, violence in Guanajuato, the State of Mexico, Baja California, Sinaloa, Michoacán, Tabasco and Sonora accounted for 852 of the total number of intentional homicides committed in the country between February 1 and 24.
The Mexican state of Sonora, was an area previously controlled by drug lord El Chapo. The region has become a violent battleground as three cartels, including factions of the Sinaloa Cartel and the Caborca Cartel, reportedly fight for control.
Back in 2023, Gabriel Trujillo, a 31-year-old US PhD student at the University of California Berkeley, was tragically killed during a research trip to Mexico. He was shot seven times and left to die in his SUV in Sonora.
Mr Trujillo’s body was found on June 22, and private investigator Jay Armes III believes he was likely stalked by cartel spotters who mistook him for an undercover DEA agent. Instead of stealing his vehicle, typically used by the cartels, they shot him and left his body in the SUV.
