A pregnant woman is under investigation after allegedly killing seven relatives – including her own parents – after a “family row about inheritance”.
Yesenia Ivonne, 35, is accused of shooting dead seven family members as they slept at a property in the neighbourhood of Primero de Mayo located in the city of Boca del Rio in the Mexican state of Veracruz on 3 July this year.
After the alleged massacre, the suspect is believed to have hidden in the house with her five-year-old son and 13-year-old niece.
She feigned “extreme fear”, according to Secretariat of Security and Civilian Protection spokesperson Ricardo Mejia Berdeja.
The seven victims have been identified as the suspect’s parents Jose Luis Castillo Hernandez, 63, and Maria Concepcion Candela Barbosa, 62, her siblings Oscar, 45, and Yuridia Edith Castillo Candela, 44, her in-laws Maria de la Luz Estrada Olguin, 42, and Oscar Valentin Castillo Estrada, 38, and her 15-year-old nephew Mario Alberto G.G.
The authorities suspect that Ivonne became embroiled in a heated row with family members over inheritance on the day of the alleged slaying.
Her father ran a chain of successful butcher shops called Carnes Selectas in Veracruz State.
