Global Courant
The corpse of the wife Magdaleno MezaErika Yulissa Bandy García, murdered by a group of elite hitmen, was claimed by a legal representative of the family in the San Pedro Sula Forensic Medicine morgue.
“The relatives sent a funeral home with a power of attorney, they did not want to go to the morgue, they sent documents, a permit authenticated by a notary for the funeral home to take care of the body,” a source explained to LA PRENSA newspaper.
The body was then taken to a preparation room and later directly to a cemetery, to which its location was not revealed.
Her three children and other relatives could not say goodbye to her for security reasons.
Erika Yulissa Bandy García was murdered in cold blood by hitmen on Thursday night inside a bakery in the Río de Piedras neighborhood of San Pedro Sula.
The armed attack was recorded on video from the bakery’s security cameras, where it can be seen that the men, heavily armed with assault rifles, get out of a pick-up and quickly subdue Bandy García’s two bodyguards. And before murdering them, they kneel in front of the Land Cruiser Prado truck in which Magdaleno Meza’s wife was riding.
At the same time, one of the hitmen shoots Magdaleno Meza’s wife at point-blank range, who embraced a client who was buying bread in the business, trying to use her as a shield.
The hitmen, with apparent preparation, were wearing vests with insignia of the Police Investigations Directorate (DPI) for what the business customers initially believed was an official operation.
The wife of Magdaleno Meza She had been released from prison in April 2022 after being captured along with the Honduran drug trafficker, viciously executed in October 2019 in the “El Pozo” prison in the municipality of Ilama, Santa Bárbara.
Magdaleno Meza, was the author of the narcobooks where the name Tony Hernández appeared and which were presented in the trial against him in the United States.
He was also one of the partners of the Valle Valle cartel, who, according to investigative reports, at the time of his capture directed the activities of the cartel, his specialty being the transport of drugs in boats through the department of Gracias a Dios. He was accused of the crimes of money laundering, misuse of name and illegal storage of use of prohibited firearms.
Before being captured, he had faked his death and arranged his funeral which few people attended and then showed a photograph of a dead body in the coffin that had supposedly been entombed.
