Mexico gang leader 'confesses' in US diplomat killing
A gang leader suspected in the killings of a US consulate worker in Mexico, her husband and another man has confessed to participating in the murders, prosecutors said.
Ricardo Valles, 45 - high-up in the notorious Los Aztecas gang - told investigators another Aztecas leader had "ordered him by telephone, a few days earlier, to locate the white van" carrying a US consulate worker and her husband, who were later killed, said the Chihuahua state prosecutors office.
A gang leader suspected in the killings of a US consulate worker in Mexico, her husband and another man has confessed to participating in the murders, prosecutors said.
Ricardo Valles, 45 - high-up in the notorious Los Aztecas gang - told investigators another Aztecas leader had "ordered him by telephone, a few days earlier, to locate the white van" carrying a US consulate worker and her husband, who were later killed, said the Chihuahua state prosecutors office.
Valles, according to the prosecutor's statement, said that he followed the van carrying the couple until other gang members told him to withdraw, then moments later he heard several shots.
The Aztecas gang is blamed for almost simultaneous attacks on March 13 in which the US consulate worker and her husband, both Americans, were killed, as was a Mexican man who was married to another consulate staffer.
- AFP
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