Jesús Hernández Alcocer, alleged murderer of his wife, Mexican singer Yrma Lydya Gamboa, died in a Mexico City prison, local authorities reported Tuesday.
Alcocer, 79, was transferred to the medical service of the North Reclusorio in the Mexican capital, where he had been detained since June, after he reported feeling ill.
At 10:45 a.m. this Monday (local time) they declared him dead, and now they will perform an autopsy on the body to determine the causes of death.
Alcocer suffered a stroke on September 12 and was under treatment for this medical condition, reported the newspaper El Universal.
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Yrma Lydya Gamboa Jiménez and Jesús Hernández Alcocer.
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Alcocer was accused of Gamboa's murder with three shots in a private room of the luxurious Suntory restaurant in southern Mexico City on June 24 in front of several witnesses.
Gamboa, 21, was a singer and actress since she was a child.
She acted in dozens of telenovelas and sang on television programs interpreting regional hits.
In 2019 she received the National Prize for Culture from the Senate, as well as the honorary doctorate awarded by the Chamber of Deputies, according to the newspaper Reforma.
She had reported her husband to the Prosecutor's Office in December 2021 for an attempted murder in which he allegedly tried to drown her in a jacuzzi after torturing her with a stun gun, according to court documents.
"She put a touch gun on her stomach, while she told me: I hope you die," she added.
She also accused him of having beaten her in the parking lot of another restaurant in the south of the city and at her house in the Jardines del Pedregal neighborhood: “He took me by the hair to the bathroom in our bedroom, he took out a pistol that he always carries in his bag. He pointed at me and told me he wanted to kill me,” he said.
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They granted Gamboa protection measures, including the presence of the police for 60 days, but the Prosecutor's Office did not classify the crime as attempted femicide, but as family violence.
Gamboa desisted from continuing with the complaint, according to his lawyer, Alejandra Sánchez Castañeda.
If it had been classified as an attempted femicide, the authorities would have been obliged to investigate the case regardless of whether the young woman had forgiven him.
The day of the murder, Alcocer had summoned her to the restaurant to supposedly agree on the details of their separation.
The singer requested that the meeting be held in a public place, according to authorities.
Three other people participated in the alleged femicide, which the authorities suspect was premeditated: the lawyer's driver and bodyguard and two people he trusted whose identities have not been revealed.
Hernández had affirmed his innocence on multiple occasions and blamed other individuals who allegedly wanted to extort money from Gamboa.
"He trusts that the truth of the facts will be clarified and his name will be clarified," his lawyer declared in June.