Fly high angel… Heidi Mariana Pérez. Five-year-old Shot and killed this Wednesday at night in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas(Mexico). She was killed in a somewhat confusing event involving several military patrols, the case is being investigated.
During his morning conference, President López Obrador confirmed the participation of the military in the death of the 4-year-old girl Heidi Mariana in Nuevo Laredo. The president assured that an investigation has already been opened and that there will be no impunity.
The events, reported the president, occurred after a soldier fired his weapon during a confrontation with criminal groups in that city.
“In a confrontation between the Army and an organized crime organization, a girl lost her life in Nuevo Laredo, and the Secretary of Defense, General Sandoval, immediately ordered an investigation,” the president said.
So far no suspect has been arrested for this incident. The Pérez Rodríguez family accuses elements of the Mexican Army of being responsible for the homicide in Nuevo Laredo, reported the director of the Human Rights Committee (HRC), Raymundo Ramos. In a statement he stated that there is no evidence that there has been a confrontation between the military and suspects.
“… when I heard rockets, I saw that they were soldiers who were shooting, I went to the side and I felt a pain in my right shoulder, and that was when Kevin began to tell me that they had killed his little sister and he passed it to me and I saw that it had a hole in the head, so immediately and as I could, passing traffic lights and streets against me getting to the hospital, “said Griselda, stepmother of the minor Heidi Mariana, 4 years old, who died Wednesday night after the bullet impact.
The mother Cristina Aracely Pérez Rodríguez and the grandmother Aracely Rodríguez Guerra testified before the Committee and asked that the military personnel be placed at the disposal of the ministerial authorities to determine responsibilities. Heidi Mariana was about to turn 5 on September 21.
