MEXICO CITY — In the hours leading up to his slaying this week, Mexican singing star Sergio Gomez had a vision of impending death, a friend said.
"He told me, 'You know what? I'm not afraid to die, and if I die it will be happy because I have taken the band to where I want it,'" said Humberto Duran, a backup singer of K-Paz de la Sierra, the band Gomez led that in just a few years has become hugely popular in both Mexico and the United States.
Shortly after confiding to Duran at a soccer-stadium concert, Gomez was indeed dead.
Hijacked by armed men after leaving the stadium early Sunday in Morelia, the capital of Mexico's violence-plagued Michoacan state, Gomez was tortured — his genitals burned and his body badly beaten — and then strangled, investigators said. His body was found Monday.
The slaying mirrors many of the 2,500 drug-cartel killings this year in Mexico. But Gomez's fellow band members and a brother said he had no problems with drug gangsters or anyone else. Some speculated that the mutilation might indicate his killing was a crime of passion.
Click here to read more
No comments:
Post a Comment