The authorities of Mexico City are looking for five hitmen whom they consider materially responsible for the murders of the artist brothers Andrés and Jorge Tirado Díaz de León and their uncle José Luis.
The commotion caused by this crime was aggravated by the attack on the journalist Ciro Gómez Leyva, whose armored car was shot at, and now a journalistic investigation by the newspaper El Universal delves into the low value of life for these murderers.
"Here, for 5,000 pesos, any imbecile can kill you," a man who described himself as a
fixer
, that is, an intermediary who contacts hitmen to commit their crimes, told the aforementioned newspaper.
The individual, whom the journalist identified only as Luis, says his contacts charge between 5,000 pesos ($250) and 500,000 pesos ($25,000), depending on the crime and the type of victim.
For the right amount, they can kidnap, "scare" or murder.
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"A neighbor is not the same as a businessman, someone who reads the news or a celebrity," says the journalist who told him the man.
Luis says that he is an ex-police officer turned lawyer and looks for clients in the courts.
He is officially dedicated to facilitating bureaucratic procedures, but he also offers contacts in the criminal world and privileged information from the authorities, such as files and even recordings from the security cameras of the city police.
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This information allows you to organize "operatives".
He says, for example, that in the case of a murder, at least six hitmen are needed to perform different tasks in pairs: some who block the victim's path (the "wall"), drivers to get to and flee the site, and gunmen. let them shoot
They are looking for five hitmen for killing the Tirados
In the case of the Tirado brothers and their uncle José Luis, the authorities revealed that they are looking for five hitmen who were allegedly contacted by the nurse Blanca Hilda, her daughter Sally Mechaella and her son-in-law Azuher, arrested as alleged instigators of the crime.
The brothers Andrés and Jorge Tirado Díaz de León.
Police said Azuher's phone records showed a conversation with an individual he contacted to offer a "jale," explaining that it was to "tie up some people."
According to the authorities, Blanca Hilda and her family were in a legal dispute with the Tirados over ownership of a house in the Roma neighborhood that they cohabited.
Apparently, his intention was not to kill the young men and their uncle, but rather to force them to sign some papers so that they would give up the disputed property.
To do this, the hitmen immobilized the victims and tortured them by suffocating and cutting various parts of the body, according to the aforementioned newspaper.
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Margarita Ochoa, the young artists' aunt and sole survivor, witnessed the torture and told authorities that the hitmen stole their bank cards to "empty the accounts," supposedly the payment that Blanca's family had agreed to.
But the situation "got out of control" and they ended up killing the victims, according to the documents consulted by El Universal.
At least four people have been detained, including Blanca Hilda, Sally Mechaella, Azuher, and a man identified as Randy, Hilda's grandson who also resided in the house.
