The torture and murder of two artist brothers shocks Mexico City

The authorities of Mexico City announced on Monday the arrest of at least three people linked to the murder of the brothers Jorge and Andrés Tirado Díaz de León, who were found dead on Sunday, along with another person, in a house in the tourist neighborhood of Roma. from the capital, with traces of having suffered torture.

Andrés and Jorge Tirado, who worked as a musician and actor, respectively, were reported missing on Friday by friends and relatives, who posted messages on social media inquiring about their whereabouts.

Their bodies were located along with a third victim, an elderly person, inside a house located on the streets of Medellín and Álvaro Obregón.

They were bound hand and foot and their faces were wrapped in tan tape.

The brothers Andrés (left) and Jorge Tirado.Mexico City Theater System

The Secretary of Citizen Security, Omar García Harfuch, reported on Monday the arrest of three suspects, identified as Blanca Hilda, Sally Mechaella and Azuher.

The investigations indicate that they allowed an armed commando to enter the house that kidnapped the Tirado brothers, and two people identified as José Luis, 73, and Margarita María, 76.

The woman was rescued alive by police, Harfuch said.

Press reports indicate that the man was the brothers' uncle.

According to the authorities, the murders were motivated by a legal dispute over possession of the property.

Both the victims and their alleged murderers lived in the house in the Roma Norte neighborhood.

Blanca Hilda occupied the ground floor with her daughter and her son-in-law.

The triple murder unleashed a wave of indignation on social networks over the precarious security situation in the Mexican capital, just days after a failed attack took place in the middle of the street in the south of the city against the prominent journalist Ciro Gómez Leyva, who he was saved from bullet impacts against his car thanks to the fact that it was armored.

"Our country is a nightmare

," journalist Ruth Barrios Fuentes tweeted.

The head of Government of Mexico City, Claudia Sheinbaum, sent her condolences to the family in a message on social networks.

"Yesterday I was in contact with relatives and friends of the Tirado brothers," she declared, "we regret and condemn the facts."